Local Flavour: Smoky, Pungent Hill Garlic, Unique to the Palani Hills
The GI-tagged Kodaikanal malai poondu is a flavourful ingredient. Here’s where to buy some and how to cook with it.…
A Dispatch from the Mountains
Down and Out with Ms Perumalmalai—the Mahesh Rao edition
Kodai’s very own Pity Paati solves your problems, one question at a time—this time, with some help from guest writer Mahesh Rao…
Failed Your Exams? Keep Calm and Come to Kodai
Teenagers in uniform, hunched over from the weight of their bulky bags, plodding their weary way to school: an unfortunate but common sight these days.…
ISSUE 6: WATER, GLORIOUS WATER
Teenagers in uniform, hunched over from the weight of their bulky bags, plodding their weary way to…
Suppose it is the early 2000s. A friend has invited you to the hills, and you are…
A charming novel set in a hill-station resembling Kodaikanal, The Element of Fog is a very readable…
In these books from the hills of Nagaland, Sikkim, and Darjeeling, the glory and fury of rain…
It’s not necessarily all bad, says our resident farm columnist and long-time food grower of the Palani…
An on-the-water interview with Ganeshan Perumal, who has been rowing people around Kodai Lake for a decade…
The Palani Hills are blessed with a shola ecosystem that receives abundant rainfall through most of the…
Plans are afoot to rejuvenate Kodaikanal Lake, but they are all missing a crucial need: improving water…
Dear Readers, This month, we report from the middle of a wet summer. It has been an…
Here is the first real edition of The Kodai Chronicle, in print! We have spent the last…