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[edit] The town

Dezire Villas

Madayipara is a flat-topped hillock located in the Madayi, of Kannur district of Kerala state in Southern India. It overlooks Payangadi town on the northern bank of the Kuppam River.

[edit] Temple

Madayi is also the site of the famous Madayi Kavu (Thiruvar Kadu Bhagavathi Temple) where devotees worship Mother Kali, Shakthi. The Goddess is known for Her blessings on devotees, and the temple is also famous for the Koyikalasham (Offering of chicken). The temple was one of the few to survive desecration, which devotees attribute to the grace of the Goddess. The Kolathiri Rajahs were the protectors of the temple until it was transferred to the Devaswom Board. Nearby is the Vadukunnu Temple dedicated to Shiva

[edit] Mosque

The area is also known for the Malik Ibn Dinar mosque, which is believed to have been originally built by Malik Ibn Dinar, a Muslim preacher. The remnants of a fort built also is present here, and the part is known as Kottakunnu.

[edit] Madayipara: a memoir

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The bed of Madayipara seems to be attached to all the lands of this region, including Eripuram. At one time, the rock covered more than 600 acres. Depending on the seasons, the visual and emotional experiences of the rock can vary greatly. During the Onam season, Madayipara is a rock of cuckoos, black flowers and lush greenery. For those returning from the full market in late March or early April, it is a blazing rock in the sun.

[edit] FAIRIES AND WITCHES

Madayipara is a public place where all the people of the area have enjoyed a sense of complete freedom. .

The Vannan prison [is] on the north slope of the rock

In the stories I heard as a child about Madayipara, there were fairies and ghosts circling the passers-by. A poor man who was measuring rice at the ration stall in Eripuram was misled by the Yakshi on his way from Pazhayangadi to the ration stall at noon and brought to the Jewish pool. Many people in Eripuram described the incident as if they were eyewitnesses.

The scout, who had not reached the ration hall after five o'clock, was found in a state of panic, as if the people who had finally climbed the cliff had been exposed on the shores of the synagogue.

MY ROCK

[edit] Bird habitat

Ittipull is one of the most attractive bird habitats in Madayipara. This is a bird that I have been attached to since childhood. Ittiti, ittiti is a bird that cries out and flies only a short distance.

[edit] ERIPURAM TB

The Travelers' Bungalow is a popular destination for writers and travelers alike as you climb up the road from Eripuram to Vengara-Muttam to Madayipara. Gundert is said to have lived and worked here during the construction of his dictionary in a travelogue on the Iowa Internet. The traveler's bungalow has survived a long time and has undergone a lot of repairs. This building is, for me, an old place of memories associated with drama.

It was here that Ibrahim Vengara directed and rehearsed the 1971 play My Camp. KP Gopalan, CV Kunhiraman Mash and M Damodaran acted in it. BP Keshavan Masha was the make-up man. Later, some of Ibrahim's plays were prepared here.

[edit] Eripuram Public Library

I am the number one member of the Eripuram Public Library. During 1966-67, books for the library were collected by Marxists and Congressmen. It was led by KV Balanmash. V.N. In the first annual meeting of the library, an unexpected election to the working committee was held, but all the Congressmen, including VN Eripuram, turned it down. The meeting ended with a loud bang.

Then, a few days later, almost all of the twelve hundred books in the library disappeared. It was rumored that the stolen books were taken to Madayi rock and burnt and tied in sacks and taken to Vadukundapuzha and thrown away. There was a lot of speculation about who the thieves were. Anyway, there was a five-member committee to investigate the book theft.

[edit] DESAMITRAM SAHITYA VEDI

Before the establishment of the Eripuram Public Library, Desamitram Sahitya Vedi was the center of cultural activities in the Iowa region. Although Desamitram Weekly and Sudarshanam were owned by the Congress, Sahitya Vedi was apparently not political. Fifty people who really cared about literature organized all the events of the committee. EPR Veshala, MP Raghavan Muttannoor, PA Sankaranarayanan and many other young poets who were well known among the young literary critics of Kannur and Kasaragod at that time came to Eripuram to participate in the Poetry Conference which was held every five months. Desamitram writers had meticulous poetry readings and discussions at Govindan Mash's Hindi school, where he had prepared his children for the examinations of the Dakshinbharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, who had come to Eripuram from Pariyaram. Sometimes it also took on the character of a high-quality poetry class. I still remember NVP Unithiri talking about Vayalar's poem Ravanaputri in such a poetry class.

The last discussion organized by Desamitram Sahitya Vedi at Eripuram was when G. Sankara Kurappin got the Jnanpith. Pootherath Raman Menon, who was the president of the Sahitya Akademi at that time, said that there were no writers in Malayalam who could qualify for the Jnanpith and that all the people here were just Mukkananchi writers. Most of the people who took part in the discussion that day were very angry and emotional and spoke out against the pooja.

There were five eager readers of literature in Eripuram at that time. It is impossible to say how excited they all were to visit the Kasturba Memorial Library in Vengara every day. The best reader in the country at that time was Kunjikannan, who was unemployed after TTC. Kunjikannan was also a good painter. The line and manuscript of the manuscript magazine published by Desamitram Sahitya Vedi belonged to him. Kunjikannan's sensibility was different and higher than all the others in the country. That friend left home when he was barely nineteen. And to this day there is no information.

Eripuram is now a special high school for boys and girls and has grown into a higher secondary school. Many of them used to walk eight to ten kilometers to reach the school. EV Ramakrishnan, now a famous commentator and poet in Indian English literature and Malayalam, was one of those who came to eat like that.

[edit] MADAYIPALLY AND PAZHAYANGADI

Madaipally is a church in Malanad, signed by the Makkam Church. The Madaikunnu, also known as the Kottakunnu, is often returned to. It is believed to have been erected in the church. The expression 'Ente Madayi Nagare' in the words of Theyyam is a testament to the prominent position of the Pazhayangadi Muslims in the life of North Kerala since ancient times.

Before the bridge over the Pazhayangadi river, the pass in the market was always crowded. Large watercraft, known as snowmobiles, cargoes, bananas, and so on. All in all, the debt and the surroundings will be very active from morning till night.

[edit] Chalikkavu

Apart from the famous Madayika, there is another Kavu in front of the house. Chalikkavu In the past, there was a fairly large forest behind and on the sides of Iowa. Now the forest has shrunk to the point where it can hardly be described as a forest.

There is no fixed date for the festival in Chalikavu. The festival usually ends before the middle of May. Chalil Bhagwati is one of the important temples built by the Pitarans, the priests of Madayikavu. Generally no one else can see the theyyam here as it is like the private kavu of the Pitarans. .

The forest adjacent to Chalikavu was known as Chalikad. Three-quarters of all other trees and shrubs have been destroyed.

Although Chalikad has become nominal, there is still a small forest adjacent to Madayikavu. I am pleased it was written, 'uttarakeralattile visud'dhavanannali'l i.unnikrsnan about the jungle in this way:

[edit] AGAINST THE CHICKEN COOP

Kalathilari, Pooram and Kalasam are some of the important festivals of Madayikavu and Nira, Puthari and Vishu are also associated with Kavu. Although I later learned that singing and dancing took place three times a year in Madayikavu (Madayikavu A Study-MS Nair), I can only remember the Kalathilari taking place for thirty days in November-December. During this time, every evening, our children would go to the temple wearing only red silk scarves and knee - length tortoiseshells.

After more than a kilometer on the road from Pazhayangadi to Payyanur, you will reach Eripuram. The main entrance to Madayikawa is on the descent after this. In place of the present tarred road to Kaval, there was a small road leading to Chalikad.

Many devotees used to come to Kaval with their chickens hanging in front of everyone. We were very excited to see some of them sent back with advice and threats.

In those days, most people ate chicken for two or three days in Kollam. Chickens were raised in many homes, but no one thought they could kill any of them whenever they felt like it.  ?

There was a chicken shop in my country called 'Kukkudalayam'. It does not seem that anyone else has given such a name to a shop selling broilers anywhere else in Kerala.

That is the virtue of my countrymen. "There is no other place in Kerala with such a weird imagination and creativity as our Madayi region," Thaha Madayi had told me with great joy a few days ago. Taha's remarks came at a time when the inauguration of the bridge over the Sultan Thodenna Canal, three kilometers from Eripuram, had been delayed for a long time, with locals bringing in two buffaloes accompanied by bands and imagining one of them as the president, cutting the ribbon with the other