India News | Monideepa Banerjie | Thursday April 5, 2012
It was in Kozhikode that in 1937, EMS Namboodiripad and a handful of others formed the first Communist cell in Kerala. Much before that, 500 years ago, Portugal's Vasco da Gama landed at a beach near the city. The Portugese colonised Kozhikode, but didn't have an easy time with the King of Calicut -- another name for Kozhikode -- giving the colonis...
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