In 2018, migrant households in Malappuram district received about 20.6 percent of all the remittance money that came into Kerala, more than any other district in the state, according to the Kerala Migration Survey run by the Centre for Development Studies. That single...
Do a town’s temples and mosques change when its job market changes? Across South India, the answer has often been yes, and usually for reasons that have nothing to do with faith. The changes tend to be about spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups, and QR codes. This...
Researchers who study Indian local government have found a consistent pattern: elected officials tend to push harder on visible local economic improvements in the run-up to an election, responding to whatever new economic activity is happening in their area. That is a...
In 1945, a schoolteacher named P.N. Panicker helped link 47 village libraries in Travancore into a single network. Within a few decades, that network, later renamed the Kerala Grandhasala Sangham, connected roughly 6,000 community libraries and reading rooms across...
Some people now pack a bag for Manjeri, a small town in Malappuram, because of a role tied to its growing tech scene. The job is the easy part to explain. What does an ordinary Tuesday look like once the boxes are unpacked? Key takeaways Moving to Manjeri for a tech...
Open source developers in Manjeri may be a small group today. Nobody has counted them, and this article will not pretend otherwise. But here is the question that matters: can a coder in a small town build a public track record, and learn from people worldwide, without...
