An open movie festival is being conducted at NIT Calicut before the FOSSMeet 2011 following which the FOSSCell of NIT Calicut and Chamba Swathanthra Cinema Project is organizing a 3D Animation workshop using Blender for college students. The programme will be a two day event ( on Jan 1 & 2 ). The Open Movie fest will be on Jan 1 from 10am to 1pm and the Blender workshop on Jan 2nd.

A very happy Ramadan to everyone from the whole team of Malabar Scoop

Ever seen a 15000 Square feet flower carpet? Well that is what the district administration is aiming for, as a part of Onam celebrations to get Calicut into the Guinness Books World Records. This huge flower carpet-  Sneha Pookkalam; on 15000 Square feet area will be made at the Swapna Nagari on the theme of religious harmony and universal brotherhood. 10 tonnes of flower are expected to be needed for this. People who would like to submit designs of the flower carpet can [...]

The Malayalam film industry will pay a melodious homage to late lyricist Gireesh Puthencherry next Saturday in a star-studded show ‘Neelambari’ at Swapna Nagari Ground, in Kozhikode. Legendary singer K.J. Yesudas, M. Jayachandran, Chithra, M.G. Sreekumar, Srinivas, Manjari, Shwetha, Gayathri and others will sing some of the several hits penned by Gireesh, who died two months ago. Actors including Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Jayaram, Dileep, Sarath Kumar, Kavya Madhavan and Padmapriya, will also participate in this show. The show is directed [...]