C.V.N.Kalari
Encouraged by the early years of rigorous training and mastery of this art, with an indomitable spirit for reviving and institutionalizing Kalarippayat, the C.V.N Kalari was founded at Nadakkavu by late Sri. Narayanan Gurukkal in the year 1945.He took it as a life mission and propagated this art in the whole of Malabar, where once it had its sway in each village. The heroic deeds of many a valiant fighters of Malabar can still be heard in the ballads of Kadathnad,one of the principalities of the great Malabar.