Hotels with the Best Views in India: Traveller-Recommended Stays Worth Waking Up For
A hotel room is usually treated as a place to sleep between sightseeing trips. But some hotels reverse that equation. The mountain, lake, forest, monument or ocean outside the window becomes the main attraction. You stop planning a packed itinerary because sitting on the balcony with tea suddenly feels like a perfectly valid travel activity. … Read more
The forgotten Englishmen of Thalassery: a walk through St. John’s Anglican cemetery
A small overgrown cemetery behind a forgotten church in Thalassery holds the bones of the man who shaped Kerala’s plantation economy, the wife of Pazhassi Raja’s killer, and the founder of Brennen College. Nobody has bothered to put up a signboard.
Kerala Renamed to Keralam: Meaning, Linguistic Changes, and What It Really Means
The Indian state widely known as Kerala in English is now officially being referred to as Keralam, aligning the English form with the original Malayalam name: കേരളം (Keralam). This is not just a “spelling change”. It’s basically a linguistic correction – restoring the last sound that Malayalam actually carries. The Real Meaning of “Keralam” In … Read more