Ajay Kamalakaran

Keralaspora

Column | How the Sindhi community helped fuel commerce in Calicut

The local Sindhi community was at the forefront of providing loans to the traders and merchants.

Keralaspora
Column | How a Malayali lawyer became one of independent Fiji’s founding fathers

S M Koya was forced to drop out of school after the sixth standard, but managed to get an education later and eventually became a law graduate from Tasmania.
Keralaspora
Column | Malayalis and the Hindi debate

What we need is a country of polyglots who voluntarily learn as many languages as possible - an India, where we embrace the diversity that we are so blessed with in the first place.
Keralaspora
Column | Remembering a Lithuanian-Polish bishop in Ernakulam

According to Catholic Church records, Szostak became a member of the Carmelite order at the age of 18. His connection with modern day Kerala began in 1746 when he was appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Malabar.
Keralaspora
Column | How Kerala and Sri Lanka are bound by common superstitious beliefs

Even with the high literacy rates and human development indicators in both Kerala and Sri Lanka, a significant number of people in both places seem to be fixated with the powers of the supernatural and cling to these superstitious beliefs.
Keralaspora
Column | Kuttichira - a great symbol of Kerala’s pluralistic culture

In an increasingly polarised country, Kuttichira and Kozhikode at large remain bastions of communal harmony and amity.
Keralaspora
Column | Finding Kerala in Northeast India

The national media lumps the entire northeastern part of the country together as though it is one unit, when in reality it is probably the most ethnically and linguistically diverse part of the country.

Ajay Kamalakaran

Column | How the Sindhi community helped fuel commerce in Calicut

Column | How a Malayali lawyer became one of independent Fiji’s founding fathers

Column | Malayalis and the Hindi debate

Column | Remembering a Lithuanian-Polish bishop in Ernakulam

Column | How Kerala and Sri Lanka are bound by common superstitious beliefs

Column | Kuttichira - a great symbol of Kerala’s pluralistic culture

Column | Finding Kerala in Northeast India

Column | Marakkar provided a fitting tribute to Nedumudi Venu

Understanding India’s heritage through the works of Raja Ravi Varma

Column | Imagining the culinary habits of our ancestors

Column | How Malayali nurses came to the aid of German health system

Column | Jayanti-Janata a symbol of independent India