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  • TKC Plans to Resume Editorial Operations in 2024

    by The Kodai Chronicle Staff
    May 9, 2023September 4, 2023
    Announcements

    After a pause, The Kodai Chronicle plans to resume operations in 2024, with a small amount of crowdsourced funding. Hurray!…

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  • The Kumaon Himalayas are a scenic range of mountains located in the west-central part of the Himalayas, largely within the state of Uttarakhand. Seen here: the high alpine pastures or bugyal of Khaliya, above Munsiyari. (Photo: Vaibhav Kaul)

    The Quieter Life: Slow Living in the Mountains

    by Nilanjana Roy
    June 17, 2023July 3, 2023
    Culture

    The first time I spent a few weeks on my own in a small Kumaoni village near the Binsar forests, I almost…

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  • Komorebi

    by Tanmayi Gidh
    June 12, 2023June 26, 2023
    Culture

    My fingertips feel the soft, damp touch of the moss, spread in clusters across the weathering brick walls.…

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  • Think Like Moss: Lessons in Ecology from the Forest Elders 

    by Richa Kaul Padte
    June 16, 2023June 18, 2023
    Environment/Culture

    Ever heard the saying ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss’?…

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  • A popular figure around Kodai town, Minoo Avari has fought to help preserve the environment of this town on multiple fronts and over several decades—a feisty thorn in the municipality’s side. Photo: Azad Reese

    No Ordinary Hero: In Conversation with Minoo Avari

    by Nitin Padte
    June 7, 2023June 14, 2023
    Community

    Kodaikanal has tended to attract all sorts of people, ever since the first missionaries arrived over a century and a half ago.…

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  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: How Kodai Segregates Its Waste

    by Reena Raghavamoorthy
    June 3, 2023June 8, 2023
    Environment

    Stepping into the compost yard of the Kodaikanal municipality in Adukkam last year, I saw a few men standing over large mounds…

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  • A Voice for the Mountains: An Interview with Bureaucrat Supriya Sahu

    by Jacob Cherian
    May 23, 2023May 26, 2023
    Environment

    Supriya Sahu first gained public recognition during her term as collector in the Nilgiris region from 2000 to 2002.…

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  • The Malabar giant squirrel, native to India, inhabits the upper canopies of forests throughout the Western and Eastern Ghats. These squirrels can grow up to 45cm, with their tails accounting for half of that length. Photo: Shashank MB

    A Tail of Survival: The Malabar Giant Squirrels of Kodaikanal

    by Sanjay Prasad Ganguli
    May 16, 2023May 25, 2023
    Environment

    Highway traffic faded away as I turned into the ghat road at the foothills of one of the Western Ghats’s loftiest ranges—the…

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  • Think Like Moss: Lessons in Ecology from the Forest Elders 
  • No Ordinary Hero: In Conversation with Minoo Avari

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