Culture

Art, Culture And Literature in Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram has produced great poets and men of letters from very ancient times. One of the ancient poets was Ayyipillai Asan (15th or 16th Century A.D) of Avaaduthura near Kovalam. He wrote his famous work Ramakadhapattu, which represents a stage in the evolution of the southern dialect of Malayalam.