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Former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy   passed away after suffering from prolonged illness

Former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy a renowned Congress veteran took his last breath on early Tuesday morning. He died in a Bengaluru hospital after struggling with a prolonged illness. He was 79 years old and was undergoing treatment for cancer since 2019.

His son broke the news on social media as he wrote, “Appa has passed away.” The news was made public at around 4:30 am.

The mortal remains of Chandy will be flown back to Thiruvananthapuram and will be kept for public homage at the Congress state committee office and later at the Durbar Hall of the state government secretariat. A two-day mourning and a public holiday have been declared by the state government on Tuesday. The funeral will be held on Thursday at Puthuppally in Kottayam.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan shared condolences on the death of a senior leader. “It is extremely difficult to bid him farewell.”

“We were elected to the Legislative Assembly in the same year. It was at the same stage that we came to the political fore through student life. We led public life at the same time and it is extremely difficult to bid him farewell. Oommen Chandy was a capable administrator and a person who was closely involved in people’s lives,” he added.

Chandy was the chief minister of Kerala from 2011-2016 and 2004-2006. He was also the opposition leader in the state assembly from 2006-2011.

Born on October 31, 1943, at Puthuppally in Kottayam, Chandy first got elected from Puthuppally at the age of 27 in the assembly elections.

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Teacher to rockstar | K.K. Shailaja on her new book ‘My Life as a Comrade’

It is my experience that interviewees are rarely interested in you. Occasionally, at the end of the meeting, they may lean back and ask a couple of cursory questions about your work. But, on a Wednesday evening at the Kerala House in Delhi, K.K. Shailaja had barely walked into the room before I was peppered with half a dozen questions. Where was I from, what did my parents do, do I have children,…

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राहुल गांधी की अयोग्यता कांग्रेस के लिए फायदे में बदल सकती है: विशेषज्ञ | The removal of Rahul Gandhi could benefit Congress, according to experts;

Source: www.hindustantimes.com

सूरत की एक अदालत ने 2019 के आपराधिक मानहानि मामले में कांग्रेस सांसद को दोषी ठहराया

जीसस एंड मैरी कॉलेज में राजनीति विज्ञान की प्रोफेसर सुशीला रामास्वामी ने कहा कि गांधी की अयोग्यता के कारण उनके लिए जनता की सहानुभूति हो सकती है।

आपराधिक मानहानि के एक मामले में दोषी ठहराए जाने के बाद कांग्रेस नेता राहुल गांधी की लोकसभा से अयोग्यता इस समय एक झटके के रूप में सामने आई है, लेकिन विशेषज्ञों का कहना है कि यह उनके और उनकी पार्टी के लिए फायदेमंद साबित हो सकता है।

लोकसभा सचिवालय ने शुक्रवार को संसद के निचले सदन से गांधी की अयोग्यता को अधिसूचित किया, जिसके एक दिन बाद सूरत की एक अदालत ने 2019 के आपराधिक मानहानि मामले में कांग्रेस सांसद को दोषी ठहराया और उन्हें दो साल की कैद की सजा सुनाई।

भारतीय लोकतंत्र के लिए एक काला दिन

हालाँकि, कांग्रेस ने एक बहादुर चेहरा पेश किया और इसे "भारतीय लोकतंत्र के लिए एक काला दिन" कहा, यह कहते हुए कि लड़ाई "कानूनी और राजनीतिक रूप से" लड़ी जाएगी।

"यह इस समय राहुल गांधी और कांग्रेस के लिए बड़ा झटका है, हालांकि कोई यह भी तर्क दे सकता है कि 'भारत जोड़ो यात्रा' की बढ़ती लोकप्रियता की पृष्ठभूमि के खिलाफ लोकसभा से उनकी अयोग्यता को एक लाभ में बदला जा सकता है," जोया हसन जेएनयू के स्कूल ऑफ स��शल साइंसेज के प्रोफेसर एमेरिटस ने टिप्पणी के लिए पूछे जाने पर पीटीआई को बताया।

उन्होंने कहा कि गांधी एक नायक के रूप में उभर सकते हैं और "एक क्रूर राजनीतिक व्यवस्था" के शिकार भी हो सकते हैं।

हालांकि, हसन ने कहा कि अगर गांधी को उच्च न्यायालय से कोई राहत नहीं मिलती है और वह अयोग्य बने रहते हैं तो यह भी समस्याग्रस्त हो सकता है।

राजनीति विज्ञान की प्रोफेसर सुशीला रामास्वामी

“मौजूदा लोकसभा के शेष कार्यकाल के लिए उनकी अयोग्यता कोई बड़ी बात नहीं है क्योंकि यह पहले से ही अप्रैल होने वाला है और संसद का यह सत्र वैसे भी धुल गया है, और दो या तीन सत्र और होने बाकी हैं, " उसने कहा।

हसन ने कहा कि अगर वह अगला लोकसभा चुनाव लड़ने के लिए अयोग्य रहते हैं तो यह उनके लिए झटका होगा।

उन्होंने कहा, "यह समस्याग्रस्त हो सकता है," उन्होंने कहा, "वह बाहर लोकप्रिय हो सकते हैं लेकिन एक नेता पार्टी का नेतृत्व कैसे करेगा जब वह चुनाव नहीं लड़ सकता है। तथ्य यह है कि गांधी को अयोग्य घोषित कर दिया गया है और यह स्पष्ट नहीं है कि उनकी दोषसिद्धि को पलटा जाएगा या नहीं। ”

जीसस एंड मैरी कॉलेज में राजनीति विज्ञान की प्रोफेसर सुशीला रामास्वामी ने कहा कि गांधी की अयोग्यता के कारण उनके लिए जनता की सहानुभूति हो सकती है।

उन्होंने पीटीआई-भाषा से कहा, "मोदी उपनाम पर राहुल गांधी की टिप्पणी को नजरअंदाज किया जाना चाहिए था क्योंकि इस तरह के घटनाक्रम से भानुमती का पिटारा खुल जाएगा।" अतीत.....

Rahul's office assistant is also among the four Congress workers arrested for maligning the image of Rahul Gandhi.

The CPM has always blamed the opposition party for the incident in its MP's office, but the latter termed the arrest as politically motivated.

In a shameful move for the Congress, four of its workers were arrested on Friday for allegedly damaging a picture of Mahatma Gandhi in the office of party MP Rahul Gandhi in Kerala.

The incident took place on June 24, when members of the CPM's student wing SFI vandalized the office of a Congress MP in Wayanad. During the uproar, Mahatma Gandhi's photo was found pasted on the wall of the office. The Congress accused the SFI jawans of spoiling the picture, while the CPM has always held the Congress workers responsible.

The arrested people have been identified as Congress's V Naushad, KA Mujeeb, SR Rahul and KR Ritesh Kumar. Kumar is Rahul's office assistant. Opposition parties said the arrests were politically motivated.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the Legislative Assembly on July 2 that the police removed the SFI people who had entered the MP's office at 3.54 pm. When a police photographer clicked pictures of the incident site, Gandhi's picture was intact on the wall, he said, adding that Congress workers were in office after the SFI workers were removed. Quoting the statement of the police photographer, Vijayan said that later in the evening when the police photographer again took photographs of the crime scene, he found a mutilated picture on the floor.

The CPI(M) has alleged that Congress workers stormed the office after the strike and threw the photo on the floor, while the Congress has always avoided questions about it. Following the attack, Leader of the Opposition VD Sathisan, during his visit to Wayanad, refused to be questioned by his party workers on the vandalism of Gandhi's statue.

'मुझे तो लगा था 10 दिन पूछताछ होगी, लेकिन...', ED के एक्शन पर राहुल गांधी का बड़ा बयान

‘मुझे तो लगा था 10 दिन पूछताछ होगी, लेकिन…’, ED के एक्शन पर राहुल गांधी का बड़ा बयान

Image Source : FILE PHOTO Rahul Gandhi Highlights ‘हम हिंसा में विश्वास नहीं करते, लेकिन वे करते हैं’ ‘वे देश की आर्थिक रीढ़ पर भी हमला कर रहे’ ‘5 दिन की पूछताछ को मेडल के तौर पर देखता हूं’ Rahul Gandhi on BJP-RSS: कांग्रेस नेता और पार्टी के पूर्व अध्यक्ष राहुल गांधी ने आज शनिवार को एक बार फिर बीजेपी और आरएसएस पर हमला बोला। केरल के वंदूर में एक सभा को संबोधित करते हुए राहुल गांधी ने कहा कि…

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Survivor approaches Kerala HC, alleges political pressure on probe team

Survivor approaches Kerala HC, alleges political pressure on probe team

Survivor approaches Kerala HC, alleges political pressure on probe team The survivor actress in the 2017 actress assault case has approached the Kerala High Court seeking its intervention in the case to ensure justice. She alleged that a move is being made to subvert the case. She further alleged in the plea, “It is an attempt to influence the politicians in the ruling alliance to end the case.…

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Many on the right have sought to depict the protesters as extremists, but the sheer scale and regularity of the protests and actions are in fact a sign of how mainstream pro-Palestinian feeling is within British society. The question, assuming the movement succeeds in ending the Israeli assault, is where does it go next? What becomes of movements when they stop moving? Traditionally, social movements went through phases of emergence, coalescence, institutionalisation and decline, followed by dissipation and co-optation by mainstream parties. This usually took decades, the classic case being the US civil rights movement. Yet the era since “Occupy Wall Street” in 2011 has been one of so-called “flash movements”. From Black Lives Matter to the gilets jaunes, movements have coalesced around hashtagged slogans with astonishing celerity, producing deep political crises – and then subsiding. The Gaza campaign resembles a flash movement. It didn’t come out of nowhere. Palestine has been a cause of the international left since the six-day war in 1967, and the UK has seen repeated protests over Israel’s flattening of the West Bank, invasion of Lebanon and serial bombardments of Gaza. There is a network of organisations doing the groundwork, such as the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Stop the War. But the turnout for these protests shows the virtues of the flash movement: it can rapidly mobilise masses of people, tolerate a diversity of tactics and keep focus on a simple, morally obvious demand. In many respects, it is succeeding. In the UK, despite efforts to demonise the protests as “hate marches”, and the then home secretary Suella Braverman’s inept provocation of the far right against the protests, the demonstrations brought up to 800,000 people to the streets on 11 November. This was the largest such demonstration since the invasion of Iraq. Nor was the UK alone. There have been mass protests everywhere from Tokyo and Kerala to Cairo, Washington DC and Rio de Janeiro. In France and Berlin, protesters have defied official bans. In the US, the Jewish left has led the movement and often engaged in the most militant tactics,including blockading Manhattan Bridge. The embattled Israeli left has also staged protests, despite a climate of police repression and mob violence. The movement has done what successful movements do: win over public opinion, catalyse cracks in elite consensus and expose divisions in the state. These splits were visible in the form of staffer dissent in the US state department, frontbench resignations in Labour over Keir Starmer’s refusal to support a ceasefire, protests by Dutch civil servants and EU employees, Macron’s ceasefire demand, and recently the call from Canada, Australia and New Zealand, three of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing coalition countries, for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”. Only the US now vetoes UN ceasefire resolutions.

மக்களை கண்டுக்கொள்ளாத, மக்களின் பிரதிநிதிகள்… Emergency-க்கு, ஒரு BOAT கூட இந்த பக்கம் வர்ல…. Chennai floods 2023!

Creation of the Pan Flag

Copied (with grammar/spelling mistakes) from my twitter thread about it for posterity.

I was going to do this for Pride weekend but you know, life, so: I wanted to talk about a thing. I created the #pansexual flag, a thread.

Back in 2010, I was 20 and tumblr was my main social playground. I was active in various spheres, and I was learning.

I'd been IDing as bi since I was 13, but moved away from bi as an identifier and took up pansexual soon after discovering the term, bc I felt it fit better.

This is mainly bc the simplicity of pan being defined as attraction to any/all genders was extremely appealing to someone really coming into this new way of expressing their orientation like tumblr allowed. It felt right for how I wanted to relate to and express my orientation.

The bi communities I had access too often saw heavy discussion related to attraction parametres of "bi" - convos at the time I didn't really recognise for what they were: bi people working hard to define bisexuality on their terms, tackling intra-community transphobia, (cont)

(cont) and developing within a social space where more expansive gender experiences and identities were becomes more well known and understood.

My switch of labels was about finding something that felt truly right for me, but it would be dishonest to pretend the decision wasn't impacted by the politics and "discourse" I was involved in at the time.

There was no popular pan flag, and the offerings were frankly... ugly. To me. Various shades of purple, P letters, P symbols incorporating gender symbols, infinity symbols. They didn't feel consistent with the other pride flags.

So on a whim, I decided to design one. I designed it to be pretty, honestly. That was a primary function of it, to have s/t I liked to represent my identity. No point pretending I was trying to be super innovative and deep: I wanted something pretty to plaster on my blog.

Pink, yellow, blue. A strong magenta, a strong gold yellow, and a light cerulean. The pink not too purple, the yellow not too bright, the blue not too cyan. Hex FF1B8D, FFD900, 1BB2FF.

Pink and blue, because of their gendered traditions, and yellow, a generally non-gendered colour, to represent nonbinary folks etc.

I created it anonymously, on a side blog away from my main handle. I was already running LGBTLaughs which was proving very popular in tumblr and didn't want to monopolise queer blog space, I suppose.

I didn't expect it to take off. It proved popular on tumblr, and for a few years the flag kept getting added to the Wikipedia 'pansexual' page and then removed. Eventually it snowballed and ended up in use well beyond tumblr.

As I've got older I've realised a lot of people would be interested in knowing this part of modern queer history, and more about modern flag creation in general, and that it's worth documenting. Not for credit so much as for posterity.

So, that's that. The first time I saw a pansexual flag in real life at my city's Pride parade I may have had a little cry.

Twitter Drama

Best viewed on the original twitter thread, for the full documentation (I may update this with fuller documentation down the line) but here's a rundown of drama surrounding the flag.

First, to set the stage:

posted about designing the pan flag

said i was cool with bi/pan lesbians

said i was cool with kink at pride

Thus followed, in varying intensity 2020-2022:

misgendering

suicide bait

general harassment/pile-on

"called out" on r/pansexuals

blasted on sapphics for satan (fb)

now sworn enemy of of lesbian kpop avi twitter

claims the original pan flag was transphobic in meaning

multiple "new" pan flags designed to displace the one i designed

claims i stole the flag from a medieval indian kingdom, and subsequent vandalisation of wikipedia for the actual state of kerala

vandalisation of the wiki page for the pan flag, resulting in it having to be locked

Part 1 in this series about... something. I’ll figure it out when I write more.

Howard Imbrey was a CIA agent. Having started in the CIA’s WW2 predecessor, the OSS, he was placed undercover in diplomatic roles at American consulates and embassies in Sri Lanka, India, and Ethiopia during the late 40s and 50s. This was a traditional role for intelligence agents: with diplomatic immunity, they would be safe from prosecution, while embassy parties and other events allowed them to pick up gossip from inside the country.

However, it did limit agents and paint a large target on their back. Imbrey operated in a friendly environment in India, where he could rely on British-trained police chiefs as informants in the battle against the Communist Party of India in Maharashtra and Kerala. In other parts of the world, governments would monitor the movements and activities of those who came out of the American embassy, knowing them to be spies.

In 1958, Imbrey was instead embedded in a fake corporation headquartered near the UN in NYC, with a real businessman as his partner. They worked closely with UN diplomats to find actual businesses to promote, to keep the whole thing legit. At the same time, it allowed Imbrey the chance to question the diplomats and businessmen for gossip and to meet with other informants the CIA had already cultivated across the continent. Some of these informants included Cyrille Adoula and Albert Kalonji, head of political parties and breakaway factions devoted to undermining Patrice Lumumba’s elected government in the Congo.

The article attached was important to developing his cover. Initially, it ran in Fortune, owned at the time by Henry Luce’s Time Inc., while the screenshots are from John H. Johnson’s Negro Digest. Luce was historically close to the CIA and the American government in general. He hired CIA agents onto his staff and allowed them to write propaganda as they saw fit. He directed his journalists to publish opinion pieces attacking those who exposed CIA secrets, like Ramparts magazine. At one point in the Congo Crisis, US Ambassador to Belgium William Burden, a friend of Luce’s, phoned him to get him to bury a story on Lumumba. No information has come out either way on just whether the journalist who wrote this article knew Imbrey was CIA or was simply ordered to by higher ups, but it seems likely that the editorial staff of Negro Digest simply saw it as fitting with their focus on black lives and reprinted it unwittingly to the CIA’s benefit. Later on, Imbrey would find another cover as a journalist with a CIA-controlled news outlet in Paris, Brussels, and Rome, which allowed the CIA to fly informants to him.

None of this was known to anyone until 2001, save for a brief acknowledgement of thanks to Imbrey’s wife in a book by Larry Devlin, CIA Station Chief in the Congo. That year, Imbrey suddenly gave two interviews in April and June, and then died a year later. One was to a high school student at a private Episcopal school in Maryland. It’s roughly written, and clearly transcribed by someone who’s writing the names of Congolese officials by ear rather than knowledge, but deserves to be read, not because Imbrey lets his guard down consciously, but rather because of the implicit biases he still has and the distinction between the secrets he wishes to keep and those he feels fine in revealing. Particularly humorous is when the kid tries to ask him about whether the CIA operated independently from the president, and Imbrey denies it, saying “That’s an Arab type of operation.”

The other was to Charles Stuart Kennedy, a career diplomat who retired in the 80s and subsequently made a post-retirement life of interviewing other diplomats for the public record. Since many CIA employees were embedded as diplomats, he ended up running into a bunch. His interview is much more detailed and professional, albeit with the same transcription errors on names, and makes for excellent reading for anybody who enjoys salacious historical gossip. Imbrey talks about reading Popeye the Sailor bootleg Rule 34 as a kid, kidnapping fishermen in the Indian Ocean with submarines to train them to use radios to spy on the Japanese Navy (sounds like UFO abductions), supplying porn to the higher ups in the Indian Navy, etc. But two particular moments stand out, one being what may be the single worst denial of American involvement in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba:

Q: Did you get involved at all with the Lumumba business?

IMBREY: No, the only thing I can tell you is they sent out this shellfish compound to chief of station Larry Devlin and he sent it back with an angry note saying, “Don't you know the Belgians are going to kill him, what do you want us to do?” We kept totally out of that one. Then Lumumba really put himself in terrible trouble when he gave a rise of one rank to everybody in the army and then found he couldn't pay the new prices. Then the army rebelled; they put him in an airplane, took him south and they pulled him out of the airplane on the driveway, brought him up to the chief of the Lunda tribe and in Munongo's office and I guess they shot him there or it may not have been there. In Munongo's office they began asking him a couple of questions. Well, this was according to his answers. Munongo took a bayonet and put it right into Lumumba's chest and Captain Gatt, a Belgian, was right there and he fired a bullet in the back of Lumumba's head to put him out of his misery and that was how it happened, but no Americans were involved.

and whatever this is, which happens to coincide with the CIA’s MHCHAOS operation on American soil:

Q: When you came home what were you doing?

IMBREY: That's where we turn off the tape recorder.

Q: All right, well then, we'll just skip over that. When did you take off again where we can talk?

IMBREY: Let's see. I was sent back to Rome in '72. Turn it off for a while and I'll tell you about it.

Dq is bae huh? You watched one movie and act like you are some diehard kinda fan lmao. If SitaRamam didn't push the hindutva agenda but had a Muslim lead and Hindu princess I am sure you would be crying love jihad. You are telugu so ofc you are gonna act like its normal. Yall are the most gullible lot of the dravidian lands. I am glad that madness hasn't reached Kerala atleast. How many malayalam movies of dq have you watched even? I see none on your blog. Selective fangirling is real pathetic lmao. Also if you were gonna lie atleast make it believable. How does an Indian have pakistani teachers lol? You bringing up nfak is like how white people say "I cant be racist, I listen to black singers all the time"

Yes, dulquer salmaan is bae. You can't be more wrong, I have watched too many dq movies to count, I won't waste time listing them all here. I dont post everything I watch. Suit yourself with the assumptions.

Anon I can laugh off most of your ignorance but Sita Ramam slander is not tolerated on my blog. Tell me you didn't understand the movie without telling me you didn't understand the movie. No I wouldn't have cried love jihad if the movie with the Muslim lead and the Hindu princess followed the exact same storyline EXACT SAME. In that case I would have loved Fatima and Ali the same as I loved Sita and Ram.

I am not Telugu, funny you would assume that although I can see why. If you scroll through my blog though you will find Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, possibly one Kashmiri post and more. And none of the languages I mentioned are my mother tongues. So keep guessing.

Also, you hating on two entire states and a whole community? The blatant superiority complex and hate towards telugu people radiating in your sentence is so low. To be comfortable in your own skin and not compromise on your way of life isn't madness anon. Decolonise your mind. Kerala is a beautiful state and so is Andhra and Telangana. A lot of Telugu people live in Kerala and many Malyalis live in the telugu heartlands. Both of those linguistic families are a pride for the country so stop with your political divide. I don't even understand why you are bringing such random energy on my blog cuz I have never posted any proper political commentaries on my blog.

I can choose what to fangirl over. If I wanna obsess over dq for a month I will do it. You are probably new. My mutuals know how I post about the one same thing on a stretch for a while and then find something new and keep posting that instead. Selective fangirling isn't pathetic anon, you are.

I did not lie. I don't need to prove anything. Maybe consider that some Indians probably live in neutral countries where they interact with the rest of the world. Hence the pakistani teachers.

Fallacies bestie, all your fallacies are laughable. My point was, I appreciate all things good while taking pride in my own identity. I can post about Krishna and Dulquer salmaan in the same blog.

Your rant was very useless but I wanted to answer it anyways. There's more anons from you but i won't be answering anymore. I will just delete them.

@shut-up-rabert ye lo bhoi, maze le lo

THE STORY OF MAMANKAM Part 1/3

These articles quote a lot from K. V. Krishna Ayyar's The Zamorins of Calicut and Wikipedia (which again uses the aforementioned text as the main source). So all credits go to K. V. Krishna Ayyar and the Wikipedia contributors.

Samoothiri - Zamorin, the King of Kozhikode

Valluvakonathiri - The King of Valluvanadu

1. The Legend of the Cheraman Perumal

Legends and traditions constitute the main, if not the sole, source of our information for the origin and early history of Kerala. The legend of the Cheraman Perumal exercised significant political influence in Kerala over the centuries. The legend is now considered as "an expression of the historical consciousness rather than as a source of history".

The Keralolpathi tells us that the Namboothiri brahmins were unable to live peacefully, and sought the help of foreign princes. Though we have historical evidence to prove that they had nothing to do with the arrival of these rulers, these stories have perhaps some reference to the disagreements amongst them.

These legends say that Namboothiris brought a prince from a country east of the Ghats to Thirunavaya, placed him on a seat of honour on the banks of Perar, and proclaimed him the "Perumal of Kerala".

Alexander Hamilton says that it was a custom for the Perumal to rule only for 12 years. The king was obliged to kill himself by cutting his own throat. His was cremated with great pomp and splendour, and the Namboothiris elected a new Perumal for the next term. Some sources say that he was only supposed to abdicate and go away.

We do not know about the origins of Mamankam. Thirunavaya is one of the very few places in India where Brahma is given equal importance with the other two members of the Hindu trimurti. These temples and associated traditions like Mamankam must have been founded long ago, before Brahma worship receded to the background.

When the influence of the Perumals increased, they refused to abdicate after 12 years. The Perumal attended the Mamankam but instead of commiting ritual suicide or abdicating, he seated himself in a tent, strongly guarded by his bodyguards who have pledged to die and kill for him.

The candidates of the kingship and the warriors who swore their lives to them were supposed to force their way through this and kill the sitting Perumal. Theoretically, he who succeeded was to be immediately crowned for the next term. If no one succeeded, the same Perumal was to reign for another term. The last Perumal is said to have ruled for 36 years by surviving three Mamankams at Thirunavaya.

According to Keralolpathi, when the last Cheraman Perumal divided his kingdom before abdicating, he gave Thirunavaya sandbank, Thirumandhamkunu Bhagavati's blessings, and the privilege of conducting the Mamankam festival to Valluvakkonathiti. Other sources say that Perumbadapu Swaroppam (the royal family of Kochi), who were the nephews of the last Perumal, got these rights. Anyway, they stopped attending Mamankam after some time and Valluvakonathiri became the Rakshapurushan (Great Protector) of Mamankam.

In the latter half of the 13th century, Samoothiri conquered Valluvanadu. The war was at last decided by the fall of two princes belonging to the clan of Valluvakonathiri. The Zamorin became the master of Thirunavaya and the Great Protector of the Mamankam.  All those who had supported the Samoothiri received liberal rewards. To the Samoothiri, the Mamankam was not only a religious and trade festival but also an occasion for the display of all his pomp and power.

2. Mamankam During the Reign of Samoothiri

3. Chavers of Valluvanadu

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