Arangottukara
| Arangottukara(Ezhumangad) | |
|---|---|
| village | |
  Arangottukara(Ezhumangad) Location in Kerala, India | |
| Coordinates: 10°45′14″N 76°12′29″E / 10.754°N 76.208°ECoordinates: 10°45′14″N 76°12′29″E / 10.754°N 76.208°E | |
| Country |
 India |
| State | Kerala |
| District | Thrissur(border of Palakkad) |
| Talukas | Talappilly |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Malayalam, English |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 680593 |
| Telephone code | 04884 |
| Vehicle registration | KL-08,KL-48,KL-52 |
| Nearest city | Shoranur, Pattambi, wadakkancherry |
Arangottukara is a small town in Thrissur district in the state of Kerala, India on the border between palghat and thrissur districts. It is in reality is a twin-village. One side of the village is known as Arangotukara (also as Arangode and Kizhakkum muri) which is in Thrissur District and the other is known as Ezhumangad (also as Padinhjattum muri). The village infrastructure is shared between the two parts. These two sides are divided by a sub road running from a hill with the Desamangalam Rubber Estate in the North to the end of Arangotukara in the South. Right side of the road that is the East side, is Arangotukara and the left side is Ezhumangad. The main road of the area is a State Road connecting Shornoor (a railway junction of Southern Railway of the Indian Railways), Ottapalam (Thaluk headquarters), Palakkad town (District headquarters) and Thrissur (headquarters of District) on the East to Kunnamkulam and Guruvayur on the West.
The Ezhumangad portion is under the Thirumittakode Panchayath, Pattambi Thaluk under Palakkad District of Kerala State in India. This portion has an government-aided upper-primary school of the village. This school is about 90 years old, founded by A R Krishna Iyer of Chakkali Madam. The Ezhumangad portion has the main shopping center of the twin-villages. Ezhumangad (Padinhgattumuri) has the Ezhumangad Mahadeva Kshethra (temple) and the Mullakkal Durga Devi temple. The Mahadeva temple is one of the oldest temples in the area. Sivarathri (night of Lord Siva) is the main festival of this temple. The Mullakkal temple has an annual festival of 'Thalappoli' (a procession of ladies with traditional dresses carrying a plate with a lighted oil lamp with the accompaniment of Panchavadyam (an orchestra producing rhythmic sound) and Thayampaka (a long drum played to produce rhythmic sound), an Oracle (Velichappadu – a male with long hair dressed with auspicious red color dress carrying a sword in right hand and chilambu – a brass hollow oval shaped ring with small balls inside which makes sounds when the balls move), and the population of the village. The procession follows the decorated (caparisoned) elephants numbering about 15 to 30 depending on the availability. This procession starts from the main temple of the village in the Arangotukara portion known as Karthyayani Devi Temple to the Mullakkal Devi Temple. This portion of the village has a library established in the year 1943 known as the Vidya Poshini (enhancing knowledge) Public Library with a reading room. This library got the award of the best library of the Palakkad District recently.
The Arangotukara portion of the village is in Desamangalam Panchayath, Thalappilli Thaluk, Trichur District, Kerala State in India. The post office is in the Arangotukara portion. This portion is having one of the oldest rubber estates known as the Desamangalam Rubber Estate, Arangotukara. This portion also has the Sree Kathiayani Bhagavathi Temple near the South side and another temple known as the Thrikovil Ambalam (Sacred temple) at the North side. The Kathiayani Devi Temple is dedicated to the goddess Durga with two festivals annually. One is the Dussarah festival lasting for 10 days during the period of September – October. The other one is Karthika deepam festival of one day. The Thrikovil Ambalam is dedicated to Narasimha Swamy (god with the head of a lion and body of a man) one of the incarnations of Lord Maha Vishnu. This temple's pond (tank) known as the Thrikkai Kulam (sacred palm pond) is about two acres in area. The legend is that this tank was made by the pressing of the palm of Sage (maharishi) Agasthyan or Ashtavakran. Arangottukara is now developing to a town in all manners.the growth in economy makes developments in.so many shops,banks,clinics etc. supports the development.in near future arangottukara will become a small town.There are couple of art schools for developing the talents of children is also here.Ezhumangad will grow as a big residential area in near future.
Notable Personalities
- A.S.Bharathan(The first top most executive of the PTI in independent India)
- Raju Bharathan (cricket commentator) - SDon of A S Bharathan
- M. G. Sasi(Actor,Director)
- KVM(Writer)
- A R Krishnan Late Krishnan, Chakkali Madam, is the founder of the Ezhumangad Aided Upper Primary School.
- A R Raman Late A RARaman is the 1st Engineer graduate from the Village. He worked in Premier Automobile, Mumbai, Royal Enfield, Chennai & Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), Ranchi. Late Raman founded the Heavy Machine Bulid9ing Plant in HEC. In memory of the same there is a plaque with his name on the wall of the plant.
Sri A S Bharathan, the first top most executive of the Press Trust of India (PTI) of independent India, was from this village. His son, Raju Bharathan was a cricket commentator in the Illustrated Weekly of India. (The PTI was originally a British owned news agency. It was nationalised later.) [1]
References
- ↑ "Census of India : Villages with population 5000 & above". Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on 8 December 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2008.