Ask a young person in Manjeri about Silicon Jeri, and you may hear about startups and laptops. Ask someone older, and you may hear about a market, a football match, and a letter from abroad. Both stories belong to the same town. This piece tries to hold them together,...
Two people can earn the same tech salary and live very different lives. One feels stretched every month. The other quietly builds savings. The difference is rarely the pay slip. It is where the money goes after it lands. That is a big reason a tech hub in a small town...
Say “tech hub” in Manjeri and most people picture one job: a programmer typing code all day. That picture keeps many capable graduates from even trying. If you never planned to code, this article is for you. Almost every tech company needs people who sell,...
Picture a chartered accountant’s office near the Manjeri bus stand. For years, a place like that mostly files returns for shops and families. Now picture a twenty-something founder walking in with a laptop and a big idea, asking how to register a company. As...
A tech hub in Manjeri does not just add English-speaking software roles to the local job market. It also creates a set of jobs that barely existed here before, and many of them need strong Malayalam, not strong English. Vernacular customer support. Malayalam content...
