Malayalees are a linguistic group covering a number of major religious and communal groups, who are spread out all over the globe. But despite his tremendous potential, the Malayalee has had to fend for himself in alien lands, often overcoming hostile odds.

In order to safeguard his/her own interest and to cocoon them from external hostility, the Malayalee has started or become a member of myriad social organizations. It is the oneness of identity that brings together far-flung Malayalees into closely knit organizations with their own annual calendar of activities.

Though these organizations are large in number, they can be looked on as the offspring of a single mother.  Tamilnadu alone boasts of over hundred registered organizations of Malayalees. It was in this context that a need was felt for setting up a State-wide umbrella organization that would represent the collective mind of all these fragmented entities.

In 1989, an effort was made to bring all these organizations under one umbrella. On November 12, 1989 the Confederation of Tamilnadu Malayalee Associations (CTMA) was born.

The purpose was twofold and they were simple – one, to understand and work out solutions to problems faced by Malayalees and two, to project and popularize the cultural and social identity of their native flavours in a different geographical area.

Dedication

CTMA was established on November 12, 1989 with M/s K. V. Nair, C. Velayudhan, A. C. Nair and V. Parameswaran Nair etc., being the moving forces. It is their unstinted efforts that made the dream of thousands of Malayalees all over  Tamilnadu into a reality. Mr. M. P. Purushothaman and Mr. Gokulam Gopalan, both leading Malayalee businessmen in Chennai, have led the Confederation from the front and are still guiding beacons of light.

There were many others who have also contributed significantly to the growth of CTMA like  M. A. Abraham,  V. Abdullah,  Balakrishnan Mangadu, Gopalan Nair, and Thalaseri Raghavan etc., who are no longer with us, but who continue to be hugely inspirational to those at the helm. We dedicate this website to these great souls who helped to make CTMA a flourishing reality.           
 

Sh. Balakrishnan Mangad	Sh. M A Abraham
Sh. Thalassery Raghavan