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33 unusual facts about Kerala


Anti-Christian violence in Karnataka

The violence soon spread to Kolar, Dakshina Kannada and minor damage was reported from the state border of Kasaragod in Kerala.

Appam

It is a staple diet and a cultural synonym of the Nasranis (also known as Saint Thomas Christians or Syrian Christians) of Kerala, India.

Banana chip

Fried banana chips, usually made in the Indian state of Kerala, and known locally as nenthra-kaaya oopperi or upperi, are fried in coconut oil.

Beary dialect

Beary Basse (Beary language) is an Indian language mainly spoken by the Muslim communities mainly of "Karnataka (Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts)" and some parts of Kerala ( "in some parts of Kasaragod district" ) who are known as Bearys (Byaris).

Clofazimine

One of the only suppliers of clofazimine's active pharmaceutical ingredient in the world is Sangrose Laboratories, located at Mavelikara in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

Communion of Churches in India

The name change to the Communion of Churches in India was declared a meeting of the delegates of the Joint Council assembled at Santhigiri, Aluva, Kerala from 7 to 10 March 2004.

Comparison of Asian national space programs

India's interest in space travel began in the early 1960s, when scientists launched a small rocket above Kerala.

Elections in Kerala

Elections in Kerala are regularly held to fill government officials at all levels of government in both Kerala and India as a whole.

Guru Gopinath Natana Gramam

Guru Gopinath Nadana Gramam is located in a place called Vattiyoorkavu in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala.

Holy of Holies

The Saint Thomas Christians (also known as Nasrani or Syrian Christians) from Kerala, South India still follow a lot of Jewish Christian tradition.

INS Magdala

The ship was a part of the 20th Mine Counter Measure Squadron (MCMS) and was placed under the Naval Officer-in-Charge (Kerala & Lakshadweep) at Kochi.

Konkani in the Roman script

Konkani is a language that is spoken by 3.6 million speakers mostly on the western coast of the Indian states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala.

Kuruvilla

Kuruvilla (also spelt as Kuruvila) is a rare Christian First Name from Kerala, South India.

Kutuvantavida

Kutuvantavida in Malayalam / കുടുവ൯ടവിട / is a family name in the Malabar region of Kerala, India.

Ladakh International Film Festival

The festival was organized by Kerala-based filmmaker Melwyn Williams Chirayath and his business associate Meghna Dubey, partners at Monasse Films.

Leif Frode Onarheim

From 1965 to 1967 he worked at the Indo-Norwegian Project on development aid in Kerala.

Madra

Bhagvatam Purana attests that the prince of Madra along with princes from Matsya, Usinara, Kosala, Vidharbha, Kuru, Srnjaya, Kamboja, Kekaya, Kunti, Anarta, Kerala was present at Samanta-pancaka at the occasion of the solar eclipse.

Malayalam calendar

Malayalam Calendar (also known as Malayalam Era or Kollavarsham or Kollam Era) is a solar and sidereal calendar used in Kerala, India.

Mallya

Mallya or Mahale, is a common surname among Konkani speaking Gaud Saraswat Brahmins across the Konkan coast from Maharashtra to Kerala.

Matrilocal residence

Examples of matrilocal societies include the people of Ngazidja, the Ancient Pueblo Peoples of Chaco Canyon, the Nair community in Kerala in South India, the Moso of Yunnan and Sichuan in southwestern China, the Siraya of Taiwan, and the Minangkabau of western Sumatra.

Mupli beetle

Luprops beetles have a notorious reputation since they can make life difficult when large populations invade farm houses, as reported in some parts of southern India, especially the state of Kerala.

Naanam Moonam

Naanam Moonam was a language used in middle part of Travancore, in Kerala.

Narasimhavarman II

Kutiyattam, which is presently considered as the most ancient available form of Tamil dance drama and still in vogue in Kerala, uses some of his plays (like kailasodharanam) for subject matter and so does chakyar koothu another ancient Tamil dramatized worship service.

Norka

Non Resident Keralites Affairs (NORKA), a department of Kerala Government to address the grievances of Non-Resident Keralites.

Pazhuvil Church

This church is one of the famous pilgrimage centers in Kerala.

Pleurotus ostreatus

Oyster mushrooms are widely cultivated and used in Kerala, India where a wide variety of dishes are prepared from them.

Protestantism in India

Protestants in India are a minority in a predominantly Hindu country, but form majorities in the north-eastern states of Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and sizeable minorities in Kerala and various east coast and northern states.

Shelley Malil

Shelley Mathew Malil (born in Kerala, India; December 23, 1964) is an Indian-born American actor.

Sivagiri

Sivagiri, Kerala where sage and saint His Holiness Sree Narayana Guru's tomb is located

St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally

St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally or Chandanapally Valiyapalli is one of the biggest churches in South India, located at a village named Chandanapally, Pathanamthitta District in Kerala state of India.

Thantri

Thantris have the sole right to conduct certain core rituals in temples of Kerala and Tulunadu.

Unnuneeli Sandesam

The work was written in the 14th century AD, when transport and communications were very limited in Kerala.

Varayarangu

Now, this art genre is onto 2000 stages since it’s launching on June 22, 2008 at Artist V. S. Valliathan's second death Anniversary Commemorative Meeting conducted at Pandalam in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala State.


Abraham Kovoor

After working briefly as a junior professor in Kerala, he spent the rest of his life in Sri Lanka, teaching botany in several colleges before retiring in 1959 as a teacher at Thurstan College, Colombo.

Adoor Prakash

He served as the Minister of Food & Civil supplies in the Oommen Chandy Ministry from 2004 to 2006.Presently he is the Revenue Minister of Kerala in the cabinet headed by Oommen Chandy.

Agency for Non-conventional Energy and Rural Technology

The other members of the executive committee are Secretary to Government, Finance (Expenditure) Department, Govt of Kerala, Chairman, Kerala State Electricity Board, Member Secretary, Kerala State Council for Science, Technology & Environment, two members nominated by Govt of Kerala and Director, ANERT (Member Secretary).

Aripara Falls

Aripara Falls (alternate spelling: Arippara Falls) is a tourist spot in Anakkampoyil near Thiruvambady Town in Kozhikode district, Kerala.

Basel Evangelical Mission Parsi High School, Thalassery

The school, managed by the North Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India, was upgraded to a high school by Rev. C. Mueller who came here to assist German missionary Hermann Gundert.

Bijendra Rai

On 5 December 2013 it was announced that Bijendra has signed up with Eagles F.C. of Kerala on loan for 2013-14 season along with Nadong Bhutia, Avinabo Bag, Jagroop Singh, Bisheshwor Singh, Biswajit Saha, Ramandeep Singh and Govin Singh.

Bishop Moore College

Bishop Moore College is an aided college in Mavelikkara, Alappuzha district of Kerala, India.

Cheriya Konni

Cheriya Konni is a small village in the suburb of Trivandrum district of Kerala, India, located 14 km from the Kerala Constituent assembly and 15 km from the Secretariat.

Dhanalakshmi Bank Officers Organization

Dhanalakshmi Bank Officers Organisation (DBOO), founded in the year 1986, is one of the prominent trade union organisation in Dhanlaxmi Bank, Kerala.

Dimapur

Besides the dominant Naga tribes who comprise about 50% of the city's population, other prominent groups include Dimasas, Bengalis, Assamese, Oriyas, Nepalese, Biharis, Marwaris, Punjabis and also Tamils and Keralites.

Divya Prabha Eye Hospital

Dr. Suseela Prabhakaran, the founder Director of the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Kerala State, India, founded the hospital.

Don Bosco School Ernakulam

Don Bosco School Ernakulam is a public high school located in Ernakulam, Kerala, India.

Erickavu N. Sunil

Erickavu N. Sunil was born (on 15 March 1977) to K. Narayana Panicker and V. Saraswathi Amma in Haripad, Kerala, India.

Francis Kodankandath

The Art of Happiness was inaugurated by His Holiness Dalai Lama at Cochin, Kerala on 25 November 2012.

Goa Inquisition

In 1599 under Aleixo de Menezes, the Synod of Diamper forcefully converted the East Syriac Saint Thomas Christians (also known as Syrian Christians or Nasranis) of Kerala to the Roman Catholic Church.

Jasuben Shilpi

Her sculpture works have been installed in Indian states like Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttarakhand.

Kerala Cricket Association

Instead of the star in the crest, a stylised image of Imperial Insignia of Sree Padmanabha's Shankha, which was the state emblem of the Kingdom of Travancore as well as state emblem of the State of Kerala, is used.

Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala

The case originated in February 1970 when Swami HH Sri Kesavananda Bharati, Senior Pontiff and head of "Edneer Mutt" - a Hindu Mutt situated in Edneer, a village in Kasaragod District of Kerala, challenged the Kerala government's attempts, under two state land reform acts, to impose restrictions on the management of its property.

Kunchan

Kunchan Nambiar (1705–1770), 18th-century satirist from Kerala, who was the originator of Ottamthullal

Lakeshore Hospital

Lakeshore is a Super-speciality Hospital located at Kochi in Kerala, India.

Literacy in India

Kerala undertook a "campaign for total literacy" in Ernakulam district in the late 1980s, with a "fusion between the district administration headed by its Collector on one side and, on the other side, voluntary groups, social activists and others".

Little Flower Public School

Field visits are organised for all classes, including to Kanyakumari, Kerala, Madurai, Vishakapatnam, Mekedatu, Western Ghats, Goa, Ooty, Kodaikanal, Hampi and Hyderabad.

M.E.S. Ponnani College, Ponnani

M.E.S Founder Dr. P. K. Abdul Gafoor,Former Kerala ministers E. K. Imbichi Bava and C.H. Mohammed Koya have major role in establishment of this college.

Malabar large-spotted civet

In 1987, two skins were obtained near Nilambur in northern Kerala, an area that is dominated by cashew and rubber plantations.

Manjanikkara Dayara

It is situated at the top of the hillock in Manjanikkara, near Omallur, Pathanamthitta District, in South Kerala, India.

Manjula Chellur

In 2013 the Division Bench of the Kerala High Court, consisting of Chief Justice Chellur and Justice Vinod Chandran, ordered the state government to submit a statement regarding the high-profile rape case against the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, P. J. Kurien.

Nalini Ambady

A native of the state of Kerala, India, Ambady did her schooling at the Lawrence School, Lovedale, and joined college at the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi.

Neelalohithadasan Nadar

In 1999 he assaulted forest officer Prakriti Srivastava and in 2000 assaulted IAS and Chief Electoral Officer of Kerala Nalini Netto.

Neralattu Rama Poduval

Neralattu Rama Poduval or Njaralathu Rama Poduval (1921–1996) was an exponent of the ashtapadi/sopanam music form practised in Kerala in southern India.

Nirakazhcha

Nirakazhcha tells the story of an Italian painter who visits Kerala to recreate the magnificent Raja Ravi Varma paintings.

Ollur railway station

Ollur Railway Station has given big contributions to the growth of Thrissur District and Central Kerala.

Pallana

The special remark of pallana is, here is the eternal resting place of great poet Mahakavi Kumaran Asan the true representative of cultural renaissance in Kerala who is introduced the new form of poetry called’Khandakavia’ to Malayalam.

Pazhaya Suriyani Pally

Pazhaya Suriyani Pally (loosely translated as Old Syrian Church) is located at Chengannur, 117 km north of the Kerala state capital Thiruvananthapuram on the MC Road.

Peruviruthy

Poruvazhy Peruviruthy Malanada Temple is a temple dedicated to Duryodhana, is located in Poruvazhy Village of Kunnathur Tehsil in the Kollam district of Kerala, India.

Phyllanthus emblica

According to Hindu tradition, Adi Shankara of Kerala composed and recited the Kanakadhara stotram in praise of Mahalakshmi to make a poor Brahmin lady get wealth, in return for a single amla presented to him as bhiksha on an auspicious dwadashi day.

Poonjar

Raghubir Singh, the famed National Geographic photographer, has published photographs of this temple, nestled in the foothills of the high ranges of Kerala, in National Geographic.

Puthur

Puthur, Thrissur, a village in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India

Ramkrishnan Suryabhan Gavai

On June 26, 2008, Gavai was instead appointed as Governor of Kerala, switching posts with Kerala Governor R. L. Bhatia.

Sacred Heart Malankara Catholic Church, Mylapra

Sacred Heart Malankara Syrian Catholic Church or referred as S H Church is located in the village of Mylapra, near Pathanamthitta on the road side of the Main Eastern Highway in the Indian state of Kerala.

Santhigiri

Navajyothi Sree Karunakara Guru (born 1927, died 1999) was from Chandiroor, Alleppey district, Kerala.

Snehatheeram Beach

Snehatheeram Beach or Love Shore is beach in Thalikulam of Thrissur District in Kerala State of India.

St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Malayattoor

St. Thomas founded churches in different places in Kerala including Kollam, Kodungalloor, Nilakkal, Niranam, etc.

States Reorganisation Act, 1956

#Madras State: Malabar District was transferred to the new state of Kerala, and a new union territory, Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands, was created.

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Born in the village of Thakazhy, in Kuttanad, Alappuzha district of Kerala, he started to write stories when he was a schoolboy.

Thiruvithamcode

St Mary's Orthodox Church (Thiruvithamcode Arappally) which is believed to be established by St Thomas in the first century AD, along with seven other churches (ezharappallikal) in Kerala;

Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary

In particular, Peafowl tend to be very common in the area.Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary is the second largest wildlife sanctuary in Kerala.