A widower, the Mahakavi (great poet), as he was known, leaves two sons and four daughters Renowned Malayalam poet and Jnanpith award-winner Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, who is said to have heralded ...

July 19 marks the 114th birth anniversary of Balamani Amma, who is also known as the grandmother of Malayalam poetry. Amma, known by that name to her admirers and fans, was born in Punnayurkulam in ...

People said to the snowfall, We are going far away.. “Why does modern Malayalam poetry lack global outreach? Why is it confined to a niche local audience?” asks S. Joseph, who founded Emerging Poetry ...

Noted Malayalam poet Akkitham Achuthan Namboodiri, popularly known as Akkitham, was declared the recipient of the 55th Jnanpith Award, the country’s highest literary honour, on Friday. Akkitham, said ...

Renowned Malayalam poet and Jnanpith award winner Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, who is said to have heralded modernism in Malayalam poetry, died at a private hospital on Thursday. He was 94. A ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was a period marked by hardship for many, but it also inspired a remarkable literary movement among the women poets of Kerala. This turbulent time gave birth to Poetria—a curated ...

Renowned Malayalam poet Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri was conferred the Jnanpith award, the country's highest literary award, on Thursday at a special function held at his house at Kumaranallur, near ...

Kochi: Legendary Malayalam poet and Jnanpith laureate Mahakavi Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri passed away at a private hospital in Thrissur on Thursday. The 94-year old poet died two weeks after he was ...

NEW DELHI: Eminent Malayalam poet Akkitham Achuthan Nampoothiri has been chosen for the 55th Jnanpith Award, the Jnanpith Selection Board announced on Friday. "The Jnanpith Selection Board has ...

Eminent Malayalam poet Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri - popularly known as Akkitham - has been chosen for the 55th Jnanpith Award, the Jnanpith Selection Board announced on Friday. "I am happy to get ...

‘Mahakavi’ Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, who brought last year’s covetous Jnanpith Award to Malayalam literature, died at a private hospital in Thrissur on Thursday morning. He was 94. The last ...

Writing, for Akkitham was an act of piety and its end, ecstacy. He had once said he cannot write just for money. He need inspiration. A 20-year-old engineering student in Vijayawada was brutally ...