Farewell TKC, Hello Sky Islands! by Rajni George December 10, 2024December 16, 2024 Announcements Dear Reader, One day, more than three years ago, a group of us were seized with the crazy idea of starting a… More
Meditation in the Mountains: The Palani Hills’ Bodhi Zendo by Kartikeya Jain October 31, 2024November 1, 2024 Culture Five thirty am. It’s pitch black outside. Only frogs croak in the dark undergrowth. Suddenly, a bell tinkles in the distance. A… More
Sowing the Future by Reena Raghavamoorthy October 2, 2024October 7, 2024 Community/Environment A wave of nostalgia swept over me as I walked through the serene campus of Kodaikanal’s Sacred Heart College on a misty… More
Sky Islands Awarded Grant by Shared Ecologies by The Kodai Chronicle Staff September 6, 2024September 14, 2024 Announcements Murugeshwari, a writer based in the Palani Hills, with Kamakshi Narayanan, Sky Islands' Tamil editor, in Kodaikanal, August 2024. Photo: The Kodai… More
Snakes, On A Different Plane by KAMINI GOPAL August 30, 2024August 31, 2024 Culture If you love reptiles and reading, there’s a good chance you’ve read Snakeman by Zai Whitaker. Published in 1989, Snakeman was a… More
The Ghost of Good Work in Wayanad: How the Gadgil Commission Tried to Save the Western Ghats by Siddhartha Krishnan August 7, 2024August 18, 2024 Environment The world is facing a climate emergency, and on 31 July 2024, the people of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve woke up to… More
The Green Queen of Spices: Cardamom’s Future in the Western Ghats by Sharmila Vaidyanathan July 2, 2024July 7, 2024 Food In a tiny nook in my kitchen lies a small packet whose contents are firmly secured by taut rubber bands.… More
Voyages through Vatta by Sumanto Mondal May 30, 2024April 5, 2025 Community/ForExport In 2010, as our semester drew to an end, my college gang was eager to vacation off the grid, and we got… More
