In recent years, there has been a growing concern about the preservation and revival of Malayalam Kambikathakal. Efforts have been made to document and archive the poems, as well as to promote their performance and transmission. Some notable initiatives include:

The very next day, Vinu set out with his battered bicycle, pedaling past tea fields and coconut groves, to the old mango tree that stood like a guardian on the edge of the Vembanad backwaters. The tree, gnarled and wide, still bore the faint imprint of a carved heart— ‘A+M’ —that had faded over the decades.