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Edit The Hindu 17 Sep 2016
State-level Onam celebrations. Sreekumaran Thampi Night. Nishagandhi Auditorium, 6.30 p.m. Mega Show . Central Stadium. Ganamela. Srinivas, Sharanya Srinivas, C.N. Soundararajan and Lakshmi Jayan, Poojappura grounds, 7 p.m. Variety programmes ... @Kanakakkunnu. Thiruvarangu. Thottampattu, 6.30 p.m., Ottanthullal, 7.30 p.m. Natarangu ... Sopanam. Parayan thullal, 6.30 p.m., Tholppavakoothu, 7.30 p.m. Suryakanthi Mini Stage ... Sangeethika. Vaypattu, 5 p.m ... ....

Engagements thiruvananthapuram

Edit The Hindu 14 Sep 2016
WEDNESDAY. State-level Onam celebrations.. Nishagandhi Auditorium. Mega show, 730 p.m. Central Stadium. Performances by Unni Menon, Anil Bajpai, Sangeetha Malekar, Sunitha Rao, Shamna Kasim, Prameela, Devika Balasubramanian, Dibya Nayar, Meenakshi and Charu Hariharan. Poojappura grounds ... Shanghumugham ... Kanakakkunnu.. Thiruvarangu ... Natarangu. Kaimuttukali/Daffmuttu, 6.30 p.m., Sheethangan thullal, 7.30 p.m. Sopanam ... Sooryakanthi mini stage ... ....

Onam celebrations begin for Bengaluru Malayalis

Edit The Times of India 13 Sep 2016
Malayalis across the globe celebrate Thiruvonam today, the 10th and most important day in the Onam calendar. While the traditional feast, sadhya, may be the first thing that comes to mind, the harvest festival is about a lot more, including, pulikali, pookkalam, vadamvali, thumbi thullal, kummatikali, etc. And if you haven't travelled home to catch the action, fret not, you are not missing out ... Click here to download it for your device....

Celebrating Onam, irrespective of caste & creed

Edit The Times of India 13 Sep 2016
Jyothi Ravi Shankar. Onam, celebrated this year on September 14, is the only festival in Kerala that lasts for 10 days. The harvest festival is celebrated by all Keralites, irrespective of religion, caste and creed ... Ahead of the festival, Keralites will be busy purchasing vegetables, fruits and new clothes ... This is a popular offering ... Men indulge in rigorous sports like tug of war while ladies perform Kaikottikali and Thumbi Thullal....

Week-long Onam fete begins tomorrow

Edit The Hindu 11 Sep 2016
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the week-long Onam celebrations on Monday at a function to be held at the Nishagandhi auditorium at 6.30 p.m. Singer Yesudas will be the chief guest ... will conclude at Attakulangara ... The ‘Thiruvarangu’ in Kanakakkunnu will stage folk arts like Poothappadathullal, Kambadi kali, Kurathiyattam, Kakkarassi Nadakam, Pakkanarattam, Theyyam, Kolam thullal and Poorakkali ... ....

Many teachers, not many gurus

Edit The Times of India 20 Aug 2016
India's centuries-old practice of passing on an art form - from a master to a disciple - what used to be referred to once long ago as the guru shishya parampara (GSP) is facing many new challenges today ... "Our minds and hearts were never away from our guru even for a minute ... Aishwarya Nityanand differs from Shanbhag ... Eschewing cynicism, Ottan Thullal dancer K Suresh thinks the parampara still holds value in these transient times ... RELATED....

A leap in his heart

Edit The Hindu 28 Jul 2016
Recently Delhi audiences had the rare opportunity to see a performance of Ottan Thullal, a theatre art relatively less known outside its native Kerala ... Two related forms are Seethangan Thullal and Parayan Thullal, which differ in essential elements like poetic metre, pace, costume and make-up ... This factor, along with the humour inherent in the texts, which often satirise the upper classes of society, made Thullal a popular medium....

A Time and Space called Kavalam

Edit Indian Express 28 Jun 2016
Kavalam Narayana Panikkar. Once upon a time, Kavalam was a village in Kerala that lived in the rhythms of season and the ebb and flow of the waters of the Pamba river and the Vembanad backwaters, accessible only by country boats ... It was here that Narayana Panikkar was born in 1928 ... At home, Panikkar got introduced to the classical arts like Kathakali, Ottan Thullal (a story telling performance), Carnatic music and Sanskrit ... ....

Kochi turns Cartoon City from today

Edit The Hindu 22 May 2016
Birthday boy Mohanlal has declared Kochi the Cartoon City. Following this, for four days from Sunday, the city will host a national cartoon-caricature festival at six venues ... In the evening, actor Mohanlal made the formal announcement that opened the fest ... At 5 p.m ... Veteran cartoonists, national-award winning animation artist Suresh Eriyat, Thullal artiste Kalamandalam Prabhakaran, and mimicry artiste K.S ... Cartoonists Ajit Ninan, E.P ... ....

No development philosophy: BJP

Edit The Hindu 30 Apr 2016
The lone Bharatiya Janata Party MLA O.Rajagopal has accused Finance Minister T.M ... While liberally announcing funds for schemes and individuals, the government chose to ignore Thullal exponent Kunjan Nambiar. The budget lacked a development philosophy, he said ... ....

Dance beats pep up varsity youth festival

Edit The Hindu 19 Mar 2016
Contestants in Keralanadanam, Margamkali and Ottam thullal regaled the audience on Friday at different venues at Chengannur where the Kerala University Youth Festival is in progress ... ....

Holding on to the thread

Edit The Hindu 18 Mar 2016
Dance is in his blood. His parents, Mohan Khokar and M.K. Saroja, were both luminaries in the dance field ... Meet Ashish Mohan Khokar, well-known art historian, biographer, art critic, scholar and author of more than 40 books on varied subjects ... and Paris and Milan in Europe ... Journal ... Lineage. From the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Mohan Khokar helped gurus from Koodiyattam, Chhau and Ottan Thullal to protect their art forms from extinction....

God’s Own Country emojis to liven up your expressions

Edit The Hindu 29 Feb 2016
The 106 micro-videos depicting the visual expressions from Mohiniyattom, Ottan Thullal, Seethankan Thullal, Chakyarkoothu, Kathakali and Koodiyattom are used for those looking for a ‘Kerala brand’ in place of the emoticons ... More gestures can be added to the list in the app ... The Kerala brand of emoticons to use expressions from Mohiniyattom, Ottan Thullal, Seethankan Thullal, Chakyarkoothu, Kathakali and Koodiyattom. ....
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