MALAYALAM
POTHERI KUNHAMBU STUDY CENTRE
A
Centre started with the assistance of PTA in memmory of veteran Novelist Potheri
Kunhambu in the year 2017.The centre promote innovative studies in regional
culture of Thalassery.conduct add on course in cultural studies for our students. The chair, in the name of a forgotten writer who
authored the novel 'Saraswativijayam' in 1892, Though the novel, which portrayed the
life of an oppressed Dalit who scaled heights in life with the help of English
education, thus highlighting the importance of education, was socially relevant
at that time, he was snubbed because he fought against casteism and also spent
his wealth for the education of the dalits and the oppressed. It is not
just the literary quality of a work but the social circumstances that enable
the re-reading of a literary work, observed Kapikad. The re-reading of the
novel of Potheri Kunjambu became possible when the spaces hitherto not
explained in the society were discussed, . The chair aims to do
subaltern studies in the literary sphere and also conduct more researches in
connection with the contributions of Thalassery in the literary field, . |