நீலமார்த்தாணட நாடார்

'Maniketty Pottal' is a place in the Kanyakumari district. There is an old palace in it's dilapidated condition, spread over an area of about four and a half acres of land. In Picture - Niila Marthanda Nadar Although the side walls are falling and little Banyan trees are spotted to have sprouted and branched up at certain regions, waiting for it's ultimate fall; there is a lamp eternally burning deep inside the lines of rooms of this old palace. There lived as late as 1924 Niila Marthanda Nadar, a chieftain fallen away from the ancient Chera dynasty of the Villavaas. Except for a few portraits of him and some of his ancestors, and the palace courtyard where the Chiefs passed just judgements on their subjects, nothing stands now to trumpet their glorious past. This too is a site for studious historical research.