Centuries after they rooted, Kodai’s pine forests are still considered an invasive species: sweet-scented but problematic, they…
Read...Kodai’s ‘Talking Library’: Part Salon, Part Reading Room, the KMU is the Stuff of Kodai Legend

The Kodaikanal Missionary Union Library, one of Kodai’s oldest institutions, has one important condition: you must join…
Read...Kodai’s very own Pity Paati solves your problems, one question at a time…
Read...Yuletides of Yore: Memories of High-Altitude Christmases in Kodai, Valparai, and Darjeeling

This time of the year is always special in the mountains—one former resident of several hill stations…
Read...A fourth-generation Kodai kid takes us up the ghat road and back down to the fields of…
Read...This photo essay asks readers to identify the beautiful bugs of Kodai, captured here by a veteran…
Read...Road rage, the frustration of finding parking, and mounds of garbage are all among the order of…
Read...An adivasi perspective of the sholas, written in Tamil and translated to English, shows us how…
Read...With Priya Mani Adapted from a report written for INTACH, Kodaikanal Today, Kodaikanal and the Palani Hills are…
Read...Two shola conservationists came to Kodai as backpackers on a short trip—and stayed on for three decades…
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