KERALA KALAMANDALAM
KERALA KALAMANDALAM Kerala Kalamandalam is the premiere public institution in the country for the preservation and promotion of Kerala’s traditional performing arts. The institution was Founded in 1930 by renowned poet Padmabhushan Vallathol Narayana Menon and his close associate Manakkulam Mukundaraja, under the patronage of Kakkad Karanavappad. Kerala Kalamandalam was declared as a Deemed to be University for art and culture by the Government of India on March 14, 2006. The emblem of the university has a traditional lamp of Kerala supported by two mudras on its sides and traditional kumbha at the bottom on a small platform. Its name is written on a banner below the lamp. The traditional lamp symbolises light, illumination, awakening, devotion, purity, guidance, protection, hope and prosperity.