A 1944 wedding invite resurfaces to throw light on a life and times in Kanjirappally, a small rural town in Central Kerala
The Hindu
A Karippaparampil family wedding in 1944 at St Dominic’s Cathedral began a trend of pilgrims to board and lodge at the family home before proceeding to the Sabarimala temple
Rosamma Chacko received a rare photograph of her father’s wedding invitation, from 1944, on her WhatsApp late last year. The 62-year-old retired counsellor who lives with her husband, a doctor at Vazhoor in Kottayam district, was delighted by the sudden resurgence of a nugget from the past. The printed invite, an inland letter with two stamps of the Kingdom of Travancore (Thiruvithamkoor: 1729-1949), might be of high value for a philatelist, but for Rosamma, it was “pure delight”. “How can I express my joy? I am very excited that a rare piece of my family history is preserved. Though I don’t have the physical copy, the knowledge that it is safe with a [stamp] collector is very satisfying,” she says.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.