About this journal
A Keralite's love letter home
Born and raised in Kerala, I started this journal to share the place I know best — its waterways, its mist-covered hills, its unhurried rhythms — with anyone willing to slow down and look.
The origin
How Kerala Travelogue began
I grew up in a small town near Thrissur, where the paddy fields stretched to the horizon and the monsoon arrived every year like an old friend. Kerala was simply home — ordinary, familiar, taken for granted the way you take for granted the things you love most.
It was only when I moved away for work that I began to see it clearly. Distance has a way of sharpening your vision. I started writing down memories — the smell of coconut oil on a temple morning, the sound of a kettuvallam cutting through still water at dawn, the particular green of a Wayanad forest after rain.
Kerala Travelogue grew from those notes. It is my attempt to document a place that is always changing — modernising, globalising, shifting — while holding onto what makes it irreplaceable. Every story here is written by someone who calls this land home.
What makes it special
Why Kerala is unlike anywhere else
The backwaters
A 900-kilometre network of canals, rivers, and lakes that runs parallel to the Arabian Sea. Life here moves at the pace of a slow current — houseboats, fishing nets, and villages that have barely changed in centuries.
The Western Ghats
One of the world's eight biodiversity hotspots rises along Kerala's eastern edge. Munnar's tea gardens, Wayanad's forests, and Thekkady's wildlife sanctuaries sit within a landscape of extraordinary richness.
The culture
Kathakali, Theyyam, Mohiniyattam — Kerala's performing arts are among the most ancient and elaborate in the world. Festivals here are not spectacles for tourists; they are living traditions that belong to the land.
The food
Coconut, curry leaf, black pepper, and Malabar spices. Kerala's cuisine is inseparable from its geography — every dish tells you something about the soil it came from and the sea that borders it.
Kerala does not need to be discovered. It needs to be remembered.
If you have been here, I hope these pages bring it back. If you have not, I hope they make you want to come.
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