Ask a ten-year-old in a small town what a robot does. Many will say it is something from a movie. Ask a child who has built a tiny one from a kit, and the answer changes. It becomes something they made, fixed, and made again. That gap is where a lot of future tech...
Every few years, a small town gets called the next big tech hub. Most of those stories fade within a few years. So what can Manjeri learn from the towns that tried before it? This is a fair question for anyone following the story of Manjeri becoming Silicon Jeri. The...
For years, the safe plan in many Kerala homes was simple. Study hard. Clear the exam. Get a government job. In Manjeri, that plan is still the first choice for a lot of families. But something is shifting. More parents are asking a new question at the dinner table:...
Ask anyone in Manjeri what changes when a small town gets a tech campus, and you will hear about big companies and new buildings. Ask a freelancer, and you will hear something different. Fewer long bus rides. More clients. A real desk to work at. This is a quiet part...
Plenty of people in Kerala work for a company in a big city and have never lived there. Others did live there, and then came home. The job stayed. Only the desk moved. That quiet shift is one of the more interesting parts of the story behind Silicon Jeri. Manjeri is a...
