These prestigious honors reflect the outstanding contributions of Kerala's icons, whose achievements continue to inspire many ...

M.T. Vasudevan Nair, a literary giant in Malayalam literature, posthumously honored with Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award.

Legendary Malayalam writer and filmmaker MT Vasudevan Nair will receive the Padma Vibhushan posthumously, while danseuse and ...

However, he left behind an unfulfilled dream: adapting his acclaimed mythological novel Randamoozham (1984) — a retelling of the Hindu epic Mahabharata from the perspective of Bhima — into a film.

When he stepped out of this familiar milieu to retell the Mahabharata story through the eyes of Bhima (Randamoozham), the second of the five Pandava brothers, the latter acquired the ...

He was officially M.T. Vasudevan Nair, but peers close to him and friends of the same or older generation called him Vasu; others generally used his initials “MT”. He chose the last for me when, in ...