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The Kodai Chronicle

Issue 7

Editorial: Letter to the Readers of The Kodai Chronicle

by Rajni George
August 31, 2022November 26, 2022

Dear Readers,

I grew up near a shola forest and spent much of my time hiding away in…

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Avocado illustration

For the Love of Butterfruit: The Ultimate Guide to Growing Avocados from Seed

by Shaker Nagarajan
April 10, 2022April 5, 2025

A detailed growing guide to nurturing avocados, from a veteran farmer in the Palani Hills of Kodaikanal…

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The Many Songs of the Sholakili

by Abinaya Kalyanasundaram
August 31, 2022November 12, 2022

It is a fine June morning the first time I hear it. A faint, rhythmic melody emerges…

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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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Stories of the Sholas

by Abinaya Kalyanasundaram
August 31, 2022November 12, 2022

In south India, the mountain plateaus of the Western Ghats form an almost continuous wall from north…

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Netravati Peak

Laboratory of Evolution

by Seshadri K S
September 10, 2022November 12, 2022

It was a summer afternoon in early 2006 when I first stepped into a Shola forest. I…

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Solaikuruvi at Lower Shola

It Began With the Birds

by Reena Raghavamoorthy
September 14, 2022November 12, 2022

For the past year and a half, Joshua Edward and A Jeya Pringly Ilancharalathan have been setting…

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Fire on the Mountain

by Reena Raghavamoorthy
September 17, 2022November 12, 2022

Fires, both accidental and intentional, have plagued Kodaikanal and surrounding areas inthe Palani Hills over the years.…

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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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