https://korappath.com/stories/index.html New chapters from the Korappath family archive, in Malayalam with English translation, as they're added. en Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:01:13 +0000 https://korappath.com/stories/chiyyaram-birthplace.html https://korappath.com/stories/chiyyaram-birthplace.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Sudhakara Menon on his father's death at twelve, the family's shift from marumakkathayam to the modern nuclear family, and his own reflections on family life across generations. https://korappath.com/stories/aniyammavan-backbone.html https://korappath.com/stories/aniyammavan-backbone.html Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Sudhakara Menon remembers his fearless, fiercely principled younger maternal uncle, their great-grandmother Madhavi Amma who anchored the Kalapurakkal tharavad, and the uncle's sudden death before sixty. https://korappath.com/stories/kunjan-rickshaw.html https://korappath.com/stories/kunjan-rickshaw.html Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 His father's Devaswom work, Gangadharettan's shop in Thrissur, and the day Sudhakara Menon got out and walked beside Kunjan's rickshaw instead of riding in it. https://korappath.com/stories/achamma-teachings.html https://korappath.com/stories/achamma-teachings.html Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Grandmother's Puranic storytelling, her own account of surviving the 1921 Mappila uprising, and how it shaped who Sudhakara Menon's father became. https://korappath.com/stories/meenakshi-building-ramettan.html https://korappath.com/stories/meenakshi-building-ramettan.html Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ramettan's tea trading business at the Meenakshi Building complex in Thrissur — the Willingdon Island auctions, tea tasting, and being paid in restaurant meals as a boy. https://korappath.com/stories/appuman-harvest.html https://korappath.com/stories/appuman-harvest.html Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Sudhakara Menon remembers Appuman, his grandfather's warm-hearted farmhand — the bullock-cart harvest deliveries, his field songs, and the children's sadness when he left. https://korappath.com/stories/chiyyaram-childhood.html https://korappath.com/stories/chiyyaram-childhood.html Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Sudhakara Menon recalls growing up in Chiyyaram from 1945, the family's standing in the village, and his uncle Govinda Menon's role settling disputes without payment.