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, 2024June 8, 2024 Community In 2010, as our semester drew to an end, my college gang was eager to vacation off the grid, and we got… More
Eating into the Wild by Simrit Malhi April 30, 2024May 15, 2024 Food For eight years, I lived right by a reserve forest teeming with wildlife in the Shola forests surrounding Kodaikanal.… More
Sky Islands Set to Take Off by Reena Raghavamoorthy May 6, 2024July 15, 2024 Announcements Introducing The Kodai Chronicle Trust's soon-to-be-launched pan-Western Ghats platform'… More
Hidden Spaces: Inside Kodaikanal’s Solar Observatory by Kartikeya Jain March 23, 2024March 25, 2024 Community P Manikandan, or Sathish, assists scientists with valuable record-keeping at the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO). Following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather,… More
