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Kerala has officially designated Malayalam as its sole administrative language following Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar's assent to the Malayalam Language Bill 2025, which was passed by the Assembly in October 2025, despite initial concerns from the Karnataka government regarding potential compulsory learning for linguistic minorities in border areas. The Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, assured that the bill includes a non-obstante clause to protect the rights of minority language speakers, particularly Kannada and Tamil communities, while mandating Malayalam as the compulsory first language in all government and aided schools up to Class 10 and promoting its dissemination throughout the state. Crucially, the bill exempts students from other states and foreign countries whose mother tongue is not Malayalam from writing examinations in the language at the Class 9, Class 10, and Higher Secondary levels.
Anila Mathew's Kinder Kalari offers innovative Malayalam language learning solutions for children. This initiative aims to strengthen the emotional connection of youngsters to their mother tongue through engaging bilingual materials.
Thalassery: A school building at the birthplace of Malayalam's renowned satire writer Sanjayan has been named after him as a memorial to him. The building is the renovated pre-primary block at Thiruvangad Government Higher Secondary School in Kannur district, which is located close to the house
The Committee of Official Language in its latest report has made a slew of recommendations for the promotion of Malayalam.
Kerala Bhasha Institute has launched to contest to find a 'respectful' Malayalam word to address transgender people.
Those of us who have previously explained to the Hindi zealots that their arrogant advocacy of Hindi was counter-productive to national unity simply sighed and thought, these people will never learn.
The Chief Secretary has been tasked with implementing the revised script and uniform language usage in all sectors.
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