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Renovation of Cheraman mosque in Kerala hits fund crunch

Sreelatha Menon/Kerala Cheraman Perumal Juma masjid, the oldest mosque built in India, stands as an unassuming monument. Built in the typical Kerala architecture by the Arabian Sea in the ancient port town of Muziris now called Kodungallore, the mosque dating back to 630 AD is currently under renovation. It is the same mosque whose replica in gold was gifted recently by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Saudi King Mohammad bin Salman (MB...

Awaz stories break pattern of divisive thinking

Sreelatha Menon What is it that unites us as human beings and what are those things that separate us? These questions are not difficult to answer as each of us including this writer has been conditioned since birth to place different people in different categories. The names of the categories may change but the alienation created between man and man does not. These questions often stare at me especially when I am in a classroom as ...

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Bharatanatyam teacher Ajeesh says Indian classical dance is inclusive

Sreelatha Menon While the nation mourns the passing away of tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain whose life and work cannot be confined to any religious barriers, many Muslim artists are embracing classical art forms due to their love of art. Bharatnatyam dancer Ajeesh from Manjeri in Kerala is a case in point. Though from a Muslim family, he started learning Bharatnatyam from a very early age as many children in Kerala do. Keral...

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Bharatanatyam teacher Ajeesh says Indian classical dance is inclusive

Sreelatha Menon While the nation mourns the passing away of tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain whose life and work cannot be confined to any religious barriers, many Muslim artists are embracing classical art forms due to their love of art. Bharatnatyam dancer Ajeesh from Manjeri town in Muslim-majority Mallapuram district of Kerala is a case in point. Though from a Muslim family, he started learning Bharatnatyam from a very ...

Sanskrit attracts Muslim teachers in Kerala

Sreelatha Menon Sanskrit is finding teachers and students from non-Hindu denominations thanks to the material gains its study offers in Kerala. The most expected material gain is a job as a degree or post-graduation in Sanskrit can land one into a job in a school or college. Many non-Hindu students especially Muslims are opting for Sanskrit as their subject in higher education and the second language in higher secondary. They are findi...

It's wrong to judge self-loving, PDA generation as values change

If you are baffled by these rapid changes in values, remember the saying of a Zen master: You never step into the same river twice….Just as water constantly flows, nothing remains constant about life too. So why should family or any values remain static, asks Sreelatha Menon in her III and last writeup on changing family values? Sreelatha Menon Sex was a word that was never to be spoken when I was growing up…As a ...

Kerala weddings mired in Insta-culture are taking sheen off gold

What are the prospects for marriage today? It is getting louder, at least in Kerala…even though often short-lived. The age at marriage of the boys and girls is also stretching farther and farther. Sreelatha Menon writes on the changing wedding culture of Kerala, once considered to be a state where people didn't believe in showing off. Sreelatha Menon In the late 80s, I was 22 when I got married. The marriage took five minute...

Family Values: Is it crisis of values or the wheel turning full circle?

This is the first of the three-part analysis of the changing dynamics of Indian family system and values by a former Social Editor of India's leading financial daily. Sreelatha Menon Social values are the legacy of a shared way of living and thinking in a community. These are passed on from generation to generation. Have these values in their journey from generation to generation hit a hump in this century, especially in...

Kerala Palliative nurse Selvy recounts experiences of tending to people in pain

Sreelatha Menon/Thrissur Palliative nurses are made of another metal. Their work makes them different from hospital-based nurses. ``We visit homes and meet the patients mostly bed-ridden or terminally ill where they are in situ. We don’t meet them in hospitals like other nurses. “Many times we find them in the store room (work area) of the house or the back yard as the family may have confined them there to p...

In Kerala people suffering incurable pain are not left alone

Sreelatha Menon/Thrissur Long before Ratan Tata’s young protégé Shantanu Naidu turned his heartache for the lonely aged people into a start-up called Good Fellows under the Tata Trust, a community-led model of Good Fellows has been in force in Kerala. It’s meant for people who are terminally ill, bedridden, or suffering from illness beyond medicines and doctors. The programme is backed by the Government and lo...

Kerala’s Palliative care movement is unprecedented across the world

Sreelatha Menon/ Thrissur Long before Ratan Tata’s young protégé Shantanu Naidu turned his heartache for the lonely aged people into a start-up called Good Fellows under the Tata Trust, a community-led model of Good Fellows has been in force in Kerala. It’s meant for people who are terminally ill, bedridden, or suffering from illness beyond medicines and doctors. The programme is backed by the Government a...

Ayurveda specialists in the service of Kerala sportspersons

Sreelatha Menon/Kochi Sports Ayurveda! Believe it or not, it is a well-evolved department in Kerala with its specialists and its strategies for the management of injuries like Allopathy. If you were to visit the ongoing Kerala state school athletics meet in Kochi, you would find Ayurveda orthopaedic specialists and therapists in each of the 17 venues where events are being organised. Doctors from allopathic wing also are there but both...

Ayurveda specialists in the service of Kerala sportspersons

Sreelatha Menon/Kochi Sports Ayurveda! Believe it or not, it is a well-evolved department in Kerala with its specialists and its strategies for the management of injuries like Allopathy. If you were to visit the ongoing Kerala state school athletics meet in Kochi, you would find Ayurveda orthopaedic specialists and therapists in each of the 17 venues where events are being organised. Doctors from allopathic wing also are there but both...

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Sanskrit scholar Onampilly Faizy runs Islamic academy where Vedanta and Quran are taught

Sreelatha Menon/Thrissur There are many educational institutions run by the Jamaat or other Muslim bodies all across the country. They go about their job teaching Islamic scripture, Islamic laws, Hadith, and so on. The Academy of Shariat and Advanced Studies in Thrissur in Kerala (ASAS) in Thrissur in Kerala is however a bit different as its principal is a Sanskrit scholar from Sri Sankara University Kalady (the birthplace of ...

Sanskrit scholar Onampilly Faizi runs Islamic academy where Vedanta and Quran are taught

Sreelatha Menon/Thrissur There are many educational institutions run by the Jamaat or other Muslim bodies all across the country. They go about their job teaching Islamic scripture, Islamic laws, Hadith, and so on. The Academy of Shariat and Advanced Studies in Thrissur in Kerala (ASAS) in Thrissur in Kerala is however a bit different as its principal is a Sanskrit scholar from Sri Sankara University Kalady (the birthplace of ...

Kerala: How Dalit Muslims forced Waqf to end discriminatory masjid bylaws

Sreelatha Menon/ Thrissur Kerala Muslims have taken the first step towards restoring dignity and civil rights to its Dalits who have been treated historically as social outcasts by the community. The state Waqf board this week ended the discriminatory practices followed in the Puthoorpalli juma masjid said to be over four centuries old. The traditional by-laws of the family-owned mosque forbade certain communities ...

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