The first human of Kerala I met was way back when I was a little child. This human was Vatsala aunty. She was our neighbour, my mother’s best friend, a second mother to my sister and me, and to date one of my most favourite people. She would be draped in a soft white settu …
You whizzed past it on the long train journeys on family trips during the school holidays. Stared wide-eyed as the windows of the Indian Railways sleeper coach revealed a world of straw huts and thatched roofs. Invariably, a jackfruit tree in the front yard. Even waved to someone your age, sitting in the canoe “parked” …
A for Arabian sea. B for beach. When these two come together in Kerala, you understand why Kerala is for God’s Own Country. Our debut visit to Kerala was a short one. And as cliched as it sounds, it gave us a complete understanding of why Kerala really is God’s Own Country! Tree walks in …
Or, the day we became foreigners in our own country Kochi is in Kerala – and we had fallen in love with Kerala after our short maiden visit. We had never travelled to Kochi before. These reasons were enough for us to book our tickets to New Zealand via Kochi because, in the flurry of …
