In February 2018, the government declared verses as the official language oath. Since then, the oath has been taken by thousands of students in the state’s schools on Kerala Piravi Day (November ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Assembly today passed the Malayalam Language (Teaching Act) Bill, 2017, that makes the language a subject for study in all schools in the state from the Class I to X.

Introducing the Bill, Education Minister C Ravindranath said it was a step aimed at persuading all people in the state to learn Malayalam. As K C Joseph of the Congress and M Ummar of the Muslim ...

States were formed based on language on November 1, 1956. Kerala Day is also on November 1," he said. "The need to unite Kerala for the Malayalam-speaking communities has been strongly evident ...

They must learn from these language speaking states and live in harmony with us,” he remarked. The minister also assured us to hold a Kannada-Malayalam Literature Summit next year to bolster the ...

In 2011, Orissa’s name was changed to Odisha and the language’s became Odia from Oriya, ... “Keralam is what we say in Malayalam. So yes, the state’s official name should be Keralam.