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Would You Believe This Bird is Made of Paper?

by Shraddha Nair
November 17, 2022January 21, 2023

‘There’s nothing in nature that is not enthralling, but what fascinates me the most are birds: their…

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First Light on Eagle Cliff, in Palani Hills

Mapping the Shola Sky Islands

by Divya Kilikar
September 3, 2022April 5, 2025

‘I wouldn’t say the sky islands of the southern Western Ghats are shrinking or being destroyed. Rather,…

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Stopping Time in the Shola

by Kashvi Rekhy
September 9, 2022November 12, 2022

Kodaikanal is a place where time flows backwards, where time retracts, inch by inch, reversing its flow…

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view from Mussoorie road, Gangotri range by Daniel Prudock

The Rest Is History

by Vivek Menezes
September 21, 2022November 12, 2022

Earlier this year, in an unusually bracing March chill that kept dusting the ridges of Landour with…

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Descending to Earth: Rain in Mountain Literature

by Kartikeya Jain
July 16, 2022June 23, 2023

In these books from the hills of Nagaland, Sikkim, and Darjeeling, the glory and fury of rain…

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Lost and Found in the Fog

by John Thomas
July 20, 2022August 31, 2022

A charming novel set in a hill-station resembling Kodaikanal, The Element of Fog is a very readable…

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Illustration by Pia Alizé Hazarika

Soozerland

by Kuzhali Manickavel
July 23, 2022August 31, 2022

Suppose it is the early 2000s. A friend has invited you to the hills, and you are…

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Reading in a hammock

What to Read in Kodaikanal: Books to Enjoy in the Company of Mountains

by The Kodai Chronicle Staff
May 8, 2022May 23, 2022

A good book read in the right frame of mind can yield a more intimate knowledge of…

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Mildred and Richard Keithahn

Rock of Vision: Richard Keithahn, Kodai’s American satyagrahi

by Rajni George
June 5, 2022October 2, 2023

Ramachandra Guha on RR Keithahn, the American freedom fighter and social reformer who held summer retreats in…

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Spending time with your canine bestie in the mountains

‘Borrowed Dogs’, The Mountains—and One Cat-Lover

by Nilanjana Roy
March 27, 2022May 23, 2022

When a feline-loving writer goes to dog-sit for an old friend in the Himalayas, her cats know…

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