The rivers and lakes of Alappuzha came alive on Saturday with the roar of hundreds of thousands of spectators of the Nehru Trophy Boat Race (NTBR), which draws boating enthusiasts from across the wor

They are for boat races what Brazil is for football. Natives of Kumarakom, the tourist paradise and cradle of boat racers, are finally waking up to the fact though they dominate boat races they still

The year was 1952. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister, accompanied by his daughter, Indira Gandhi, climbed onto the deck of Nadubhagom Chundan, fascinated by the Nadubhagom boat club's

Kayamkulam (Kerala), July 13: Kerala's famed boat race at Alappuzha is set to get competition this year. A Marxist legislator and boat race enthusiast has finalised plans to launch a boat race at Kaya