Description:
Tirur is one of the important business centres of Malappuram district. This is the birthplace of Thunjuath Ramanujan Ezhuthachan of the 16th century AD, honored as the Father of Malayalam literature. Important works of Ezhuthachan, Adhyatma Ramayana and Harinamakeerthanam are widely recited in Kerala homes.
A memorial for the great poet has been built at Thunjan paramba, where weeklong literary mela is organized in the last week of December. People in hundreds; reach Thunjanparamba with their children, to initiate them into the world of letters on the Vijayadasami day. Children are made to write on the white sands of Thunjanparamba with their fingers. Young poets of Kerala come on that day to offer their first poem. A Nuxvomica tree the leaves of which are not bitter is a surprise at the Thunjan paramba.
