Considered the uncrowned prince of Kerala Muslim folk songs, named "mappila pattu", VM Kutty, died of a heart ailment at a private hospital in Kozhikode on Wednesday, family sources said. He was 86.

Drawing from the Portuguese, Dutch, English and Arab influences, Mappila cuisine is the best sort of amalgamation of local and borrowed food traditions. And the pice de rsistance of Mappila cooking is ...

Eranholi Moosa's demise is one that has plunged Keralite into grief and sorrow today, however, the 'Mappila paatukal' he has brought to life will live on in the hearts of all Malayalis. Worldwide, ...

The Muslim folklore songs are usually written in a specific Arabi-Malayalam script and sing praises of Islamic personalities or notable incidents in the history of Islam. During Ramadan, as night ...

“For your father, Adam, was created with dirt from the surface of the earth. You also will be returned to the earth” The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, ...

It was after doing music for the movie Mylanchi Monjulla Veedu that people of the popular music label ‘Muzik 247’ approached music director Afzal Yusuff to do a set of ‘mappila’ songs for them. While ...

Among the witnesses whose names are inscribed in Arabic on the Kollam Syrian copper plates of 849 CE are men called Muhammad, Ibrahim, Mansur and Ismail. Oral tradition claims that Islam’s arrival in ...

After films on Kunjali Marakkar and Variyan Kunnathu Kunjahammed Haji, yet again in Mollywood, two different movies have been announced on the same subject. The films, based on the topic of Mappila ...

Malappuram: In an effort to revive the classical Mappila songs, Moyinkutty Vaidyar Mappila Kala Academy has opened a musical archive at the Mahakavi Moinkutty Vaidyar Smarakam at Kondotty. The archive ...

If you want to know your family better, write a cookbook with them. This isn’t a saying, but it needs to be. My folks, the Arinhal Karuvantevalappil family, are Mappilas, as the Muslims in the Malabar ...