Just like dance, the art form requires you to be flexible," she says. Hailing from Kerala's Thiyya community, Meenakshi Amma's guru was 15 when he and his brothers opened their own Kalaripayattu ...

In the 19th century, the King of Travancore in Kerala imposed a tax on women of certain lower castes, such as the Ezhava, Thiyya, Nadar, and Dalit communities, for covering their breasts.

The Marxist leader, also born to the backward Thiyya caste, used the opportunity to accuse the sangh parivar of trying to appropriate Narayana Guru who stood against Brahminical hegemony enshrined in ...

Mumbai, Dec 9 (UNI) The activists of the district unit of Shiv Sena (UBT) on Monday staged a 'Thiyya Andolan' (sit-in) on the Dudganga river bridge on Pune-Bangalore national highway to protest ...

Chithralekha, 47, had been undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Kannur for the last two weeks, and doctors confirmed her death around 3am following respiratory failure. E Chithralekha, a ...

Kolhapur, Aug 3 (UNI) With becoming aggressive over bad roads on Kolhapur - Pune national highway, Congress party workers on Saturday staged "Thiyya Andolan" (squatted down at one place for the demand ...

The Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) released several crucial rank lists and short lists for various positions last week. Click on the respective links to view the rank list.

Her father inherited her love for plants. Ammal had 18 siblings and was born into the Thiyya caste. After completing basic education in her locality, Ammal pursued a Bachelor’s Degree from Queen ...

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Depositors from Adarsha Nagari Sahakari Patsanstha and seven other banks and credit societies staged a 'Thiyya Andolan' at the Divisional Commissionerate on Tuesday, demanding the return of their ...