The ledger on the counter has been there longer than anyone in the family can remember. Then a young relative comes home from a big city and asks a strange question: “Which item actually makes us money?” Key takeaways Many long-running shops and trading...
Kerala already knows what a tech cluster looks like. Big IT parks stand in Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi. So why does a small campus in Manjeri get the “Silicon” nickname, and is it even the same kind of project? Key takeaways Technopark and Infopark are...
Many young people in Kerala finish a degree and then wait for a job that fits it. So can a small tech hub in Manjeri change that, or only a small part of it? This is a look at Kerala educated unemployment and where a tech hub fits. The short answer is that it helps...
In many Malappuram homes, someone is in the Gulf. A son, a brother, an uncle, a husband. It is so normal that few people even say it out loud. So when a tech hub starts to grow in Manjeri, a quiet question shows up at the dinner table: could a career at home ever sit...
Drive a few minutes out of Manjeri and the view changes. Coconut palms, paddy fields, banana plants, and rubber trees take over from the shopfronts. So here is a fair question: could founders building startups in town make something for the farmers next door? That is...
Picture a young founder in Manjeri with an idea to help patients remember their medicines. Down the road sit a government medical college and busy clinics. Could that founder walk over and test the idea with real doctors? Today, probably not. But the question is worth...
