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 ...

Devaki Nilayamgode’s life stories begin on strict personal notes but soon traverse the infernos repressed behind those palm-leaf umbrellas of Namboothiri women of a time June 25, 2025 e-Paper ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...