Manjeri did not have a tech reputation ten years ago. Today it has a shared campus, a startup accelerator, and a growing list of founders who chose to stay instead of moving to Bengaluru. So the obvious question follows: why hasn’t any other Kerala town visibly...
Ask five people in Manjeri whether the town is becoming a tech hub and you will get five different answers. Most of them are guesses based on how the town feels, not on anything you can check. The honest answer sits in between. A few real, checkable signals do point...
Ask most people what Kerala’s startup policy has done for the state, and you will hear about Kochi’s IT corridor or the capital’s incubators. Almost nobody mentions a town like Manjeri. That gap is not an accident, and it is not permanent either. Key...
Most tech hiring in India quietly assumes two things: that you studied in English, and that someone in your family already works an office job. Walk into a classroom in and around Manjeri and both assumptions fall apart. Many students here studied in Malayalam-medium...
A landlord in Manjeri used to rent out a spare room only to a relative or a family friend. Now the same room gets asked about by someone who just got a job across town at a coworking campus. That small shift is happening across parts of Manjeri right now, and almost...
Until a few years ago, an engineering student in Malappuram who wanted real startup experience had one real option: leave the district. Bangalore, Kochi, or Coimbatore. Pack a bag, find a room, and hope the internship was worth the distance. That is starting to...
