The graffiti seeking vote for M B Rajesh invited flak on social media for the ‘use of Arabic for minority appeasement’. However, the script used in the graffiti was Arabi Malayalam, a variant form of ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: campaign graffiti for M B Rajesh, who is the LDF candidate in Palakkad, has brought to discussion, a script which had been popular in the state till a few decades ago. The graffiti ...

MALAPPURAM: The Malayalam University has set up a centre for studies of Arabi Malayalam language widely used by Muslims in Malabar between 17th and 20th centuries. The centre, the first of a ...

A story, probably apocryphal, talks of the Union Jack continuing to flutter over the lighthouse at Minicoy Island (part of Lakshadweep) even as late as 1956. The lighthouse keeper apparently hadn’t ...

The Muslim folklore songs are usually written in a specific Arabi-Malayalam script and sing praises of Islamic personalities or notable incidents in the history of Islam. During Ramadan, as night ...