Devaki Nilayamgode's memoir, "Nashtabodhangalillathe", made waves in Kerala with its warts-and-all, insider account of the life of an Antharjanam (a Namboodiri woman). She had started writing in ...

THRISSUR: Noted social reformer and writer Devaki Nilayamgode died at her residence in Thrissur around noon on Thursday, following age-related ailments. She was 95. Nilayamgode was the driving ...

Thrissur: People from various walks of life bade a moving farewell to the departed activist-writer Devaki Nilayamgode (95) on Friday. Revenue minister K Rajan placed a wreath on behalf of the ...

ANUPAMA RAJU talks to Devaki Nilayamgode about her forthcoming book and a world long gone. June 3, 2025 e-Paper. LOGIN Account. eBooks Subscribe GIFT FRONT PAGE. Search. Live Now. News.

When Devaki Nilayamgode published her short memoir Yatra: Kattilum Nattilum, in 2003, it revealed the dark and oppressed world of an Antharjanam to the reading community of Kerala. She w ...

“I am a 75-year-old antharjanam”, begins Devaki Nilayamgode in this first autobiography of a Namboodiri woman. Her father was 68 when she, his twelfth child, was born. He passed away at 70 ...

Devaki Nilayamgode made a late entry into Malayalam literature. She began writing at the age of 75, after her grandson, Thadhagathan, persuaded his story-telling ammamma to pen her memories. Later, he ...

Devaki’s narrative tone is not judgemental – there is no discernible anger at the life she was forced to lead as a child until she was married and left home at the age of 15.