Ramadan nights in the nadumuttam

Tarawih, nombuthura tables and stories under the Kuttichira moon.

Every Ramadan the tharavad fills with cousins returning from the Gulf and nearby towns.

Iftar spreads across the nadumuttam: pathiri, samosa, dates and hot chai.

After tarawih at the Kuttichira mosque, elders recite the Quran on the veranda.

Children fall asleep to Fathima's stories of prophets and old Kozhikode.

On Eid morning we embrace, forgive and begin again, Alhamdulillah.