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The Kodai Chronicle

Issue 6

Water touches every one of our senses (Photo: Neha Sumitran)

Editorial: Letter to the Readers of The Kodai Chronicle

by Rajni George
July 2, 2022August 2, 2022

Dear Readers, This month, we report from the middle of a wet summer. It has been an…

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Kodaikanal Lake, a man-made lake whose perimeter is around 5 kilometres, turns 150 next year; seen here from above in 2017 (Photo: Mohammed Farooq)

What Lies Beneath

by Jacob Cherian
July 2, 2022August 31, 2022

Plans are afoot to rejuvenate Kodaikanal Lake, but they are all missing a crucial need: improving water…

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Harvesting Abundance

by Reena Raghavamoorthy
July 6, 2022August 31, 2022

The Palani Hills are blessed with a shola ecosystem that receives abundant rainfall through most of the…

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Kodai boatman Ganeshan Perumal with the tools of his trade (Photo: Azad Reese)

Portrait of a Kodai Boatman

by Pavi Sagar
July 9, 2022August 31, 2022

An on-the-water interview with Ganeshan Perumal, who has been rowing people around Kodai Lake for a decade…

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Cloudy With a Chance of Sunshine: What Does it Mean to Farm in Times of Climate Change?

by Shaker Nagarajan
July 13, 2022August 31, 2022

It’s not necessarily all bad, says our resident farm columnist and long-time food grower of the Palani…

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Descending to Earth: Rain in Mountain Literature

by Kartikeya Jain
July 16, 2022August 31, 2022

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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Two young men by a waterfall in Kodaikanal (Photo: Aayush Agarwal)

Failed Your Exams? Keep Calm and Come to Kodai

by Jegu Markam
July 27, 2022August 31, 2022

Teenagers in uniform, hunched over from the weight of their bulky bags, plodding their weary way to…

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Down and Out with Ms Perumalmalai—the Mahesh Rao edition

by Mahesh Rao
August 3, 2022August 31, 2022

Kodai’s very own Pity Paati solves your problems, one question at a time—this time, with some help…

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