All articles in this book are written from a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), point of view. Therefore these articles are described to attract scholars who work on CDA and people who wish to know about contemporary trends in linguistic studies in Malayalam. Taken all together, these articles (Castelect: A Language of Power and Social Stratification, Political Language in Malayalam: Power and Ideology, Hegemonic Influence of English on Malayalam, Gender Discrimination and Modality and Television Serials - Religious Revivalism through Language) provide a comprehensive view of socio-linguistic nature of Malayalam and its power structure. It provides readers with a far-reaching picture of the linguistic research in Malayalam other than world languages or global languages.