KANNUR: For Portuguese theatre practitioner and researcher Filipe Pereira, theyyam was never just a spectacle. It became faith, family, and a recurring homecoming. While visitors from across the world ...

JEDDAH — LEGACY (Leadership & Empowering Global Academy for children and youth) in its regular session held in Jeddah recently bid farewell to its senior faculty member Muthappan Annamalai, who is ...

If a survey is taken on the most popular deity in the Malabar region, Muthappan will be the clear winner. He is a folk god with designated abodes at Parassini and Kunnathur Padi, both in Kannur ...

Ornate in his intricately crafted headgear and captivating red, white and yellow ritualistic colours smeared across his face, Muthappan sways to the intense drumbeats of the traditional ‘chenda'. Far ...