About the People of Nileshwar

The people of Nileshwar are of mixed races and most of them are soft and good in nature.

Life Style: - As Nileshwar is part of Kerala the lifestyle of the people here also as same as of Kerala, though some deference may be noticed of those from south of Kerala.

Language: - Almost all people are speaking Malayalam, and a few like the Shetty, Shenoy(Kannada Brahmins) are using Kongini in their home and within their relatives, but all have good fluency in Malayalam. About 30% of the Population have knowledge in English and Hindi.

Occupation: - Earlier most of the people were farmers, as time passes they slowly turn to various sectors, now many are employed with Govt. and Private in and around as well as in Military, Abroad etc. There are lot of people doing business and some community especialy residing at the seashore are fishermen.

Religion: - The people here are practicing deference religion mainly Hindus then Muslims and Christians. Other religion like Buddhist and Jain are there but very few. Even the people of deference religions are staying mixed in all localities, they are living in peace and harmony helping each other.

Education: - Around 90% of literacy achieved in Nileshwar and the literacy programmes are on. Nowadays facilities for education is well available especially for primary education, most of the students are completing their secondary education and 70 to 80% of them are going for higher studies like graduation in arts and commerce, others are turning to business or to their traditional job. Even though facilities for PEG like higher studies are available, after graduation most of the youth start searching for a job, yet there are lot of Post Graduates and Ph.D. scholars are coming out of the colleges annually.

Culture: - The coexistence of the people of this area are excellent as the society keeps the culture and heritage of their ancestors. Contrary to the educational level, people are attaining good knowledge through reading, attending seminars, classes etc. are conducted by cultural societies and institutions. Any where deep in the village reading rooms and books are available which helps the people to make a practice of reading valuable books. There are lot of organisations including small clubs in the villages who conducting arts and cultural proggrammes to entertain and educate the people.

Activities: - Lot of people especially youth are participating in activities like arts and sports. This place is famous for art forms like drama, poorakkali, theyyam, ottam thullal, poratte, kolkkali, classical dance etc. this is the home of so many famous artists in Kerala - the recent one is the cini actress Kavya - . In sports Nileshwar is famous for football, kabadi and athletics, Nileshwar had contributed even national players in football and kabadi.