On the day before Aromal chekavar had to leave a party was thrown at the Puthuram household to send him on his way. While all of his friends and family were there and there was plenty of music and dancing, Aromal could not enjoy himself. He was nervous about his first angam and, more pressingly, […]
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ആറ്റുംമണമ്മേലെ ഉണ്ണിയാര്ച്ച പുത്തൂരം വീട്ടിലെ കണ്ണപ്പച്ചേകവരുടെ മകളായ ഉണ്ണിയാര്ച്ച . സഹോദരന് ആരോമല് ചേകവരൊപ്പം വളരെ ചെറുപ്പത്തില്ത്തന്നെ കളരിപ്പയറ്റിലെ വിവിധ മുറകള് പരിശീലിച്ചു. അതുകൊണ്ട് തന്നെ ഒരു പുരുഷന് ചേര്ന്ന കരുത്തും പെണ്ണിന്റെ നിശ്ചയദാര്ഷ്ഢ്യവും അവള്ക്കുണ്ടായിരുന്നു.നെറികേടുകണ്ടാല് നേരിട്ടെതിര്ക്കാന് മടിയില്ലാത്ത പുത്തൂരം വീട്ടിലെ ഈ വീരാംഗനക്ക് ആങ്ങളയായ ആരോമലും അമ്മാവന്റെ മകനായ ചന്തുവും ആയിരുന്നു കളിക്കൂട്ടുകാര്. കുട്ടിക്കാലം മുതല് ചന്തുവിനോട് കാണിച്ച ചങ്ങാത്തം വളര്ന്നപ്പോള് ചന്തുവിനത് പ്രണയമായി.ചന്തുവിന്റെ പകയും കുടുംബകലഹവും ഉണ്ണിയാര്ച്ചയെ അയാളില് നിന്നും അകറ്റുകയായിരുന്നു. അങ്ങനെ കൗ മാരത്തില്
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Preparation for the fight began immediately. Aromal started training harder than ever. Every evening he was in the Kalari, sharpening his mind and body and every night before bed he would pray to the gods to win their favour. He was in the best shape of his life and he felt confident that he would
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The story of Pazhassi Raja is one so extraordinary, so filled with courage and action, that it would be worthy of the great songs of old that told tales of the likes of Unniyarcha and Aromal Chekavar. Born into a royal family of Kerala, Pazhassi grew up to rule the kingdom of Kottayam during the
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Long, long ago, in a time when the great Kalaripayattu warriors still roamed Kerala with shields on their backs and urumis around their waists, there lived two brothers from Kadathanadan. Their names were Unnichandror Nair and Unnikonnar Nair and they were from a wealthy and important family. The two brothers looked very similar: they were
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Deep in the jungled foothills of the dramatic Western Ghats, one man is striving to maintain a noble tradition that some claim is millennia old. Thomas is a fully trained Master of Kalaripayattu, a fierce martial art thought to be the very first in the world from which all other Eastern martial arts are defended.
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Unniyarcha’s Childhood and Marriage Once upon a time, near a place called Kadathanadu, lived a woman called Unniyarcha. Unniyarcha was born into the great Puthuram family, a household famous at the time for producing great warriors, all highly trained in the noble art of Kalaripayattu. Her brother Aromal Chekavar was a notoriously ferocious warrior whose
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Kalaripayattu Warriors of Kadathanadu KALARIPAYATTU WARRIORS: In Kadathanadu there is a very famous family called the Thacholi Manikoth, Othenan was born into this family. His father was the lord of Puthupanam. Thacholi Othenan had one elder brother whose name was Komapan, and a younger sister named Unichara. Thacholi Othenan’s childhood He had a very creative
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The more I travel and meet new people, the more often this little gem of a quote from Zig Ziglar comes to mind. In this part two of my cornerstone series, we will explore the relevance of the last five cornerstones and the relevance of kalaripayattu in the modern world. Last time we looked at
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I like to explain benefits of Kalaripayattu Let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Scott Kelly and I am a scholar from the far-off land of Australia. I was first introduced to the ancient art of Kalaripayattu during a long self-discovery adventure around the Spiritual continent of Asia. The fact that I
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