Tuncan Parambu

Thunjan Parambu is a place in Tirur a town in Malappuram district of Kerala, South India. Thunjan Parambu is where Thunchan Ramanujan Ezhuthchan, the father of the Malayalam language was born.Tunchan Parambu is a place in Tirur a small town in Malappuram district of Kerala, South India. Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan is considered as the Father of the Malayalam language, because of his devotion to the language, his influence on the acceptance of the Malayalam alphabet, and his extremely popular poetic works in Malayalam. He was born in the 17th century in Tirur, which is within the Malappuram district of the state of Kerala ( in South India). His true name is unknown. He is alternatively known as Thunjath Ramanujan Ezhuthachan or sometimes simply Ramanujan, but most often simply as Ezhuthachan. Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan was born in the 16th century. The birth place of Ezhuthachan is now known as Thunjan Parambu Some sources state that he was born into a Chakkala Nair (low subcast among Nairs) family, held low among Savarna hindu caste system of Kerala and among the Nair caste. Some apocryphal legends have that Ezhuthachan's father was a Namboodiri Brahmin A few sources claim that he was of the Ezhuthachan (sometimes called Kadupattan) caste.