Pazhassi Raja – Warrior King of the Kalaripayattu Freedom Fighters (Part 1)
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...
Aromal Chekavar – Kadathanadan Kalaripayattu Warrior (Part 1)
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...
Wayanad – A Green and Pleasant Land
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...