Does Manjeri need its own airport right now? No. Not even close. That is the honest answer, and it is worth saying plainly before anyone gets carried away with talk of runways near a coworking campus in Malappuram. Silicon Jeri is growing. More founders are showing...
At Silicon Jeri in Manjeri, one shared office calendar carries Ramadan fasting hours, Eid holidays, Onam feast day, and Vishu, sometimes all in the same season. Nobody printed four separate calendars for four different teams. They share one. Malappuram district has a...
Most people in Manjeri still ask what Silicon Jeri actually is. But a small number of visitors from outside Kerala, and a few from outside India, have started asking a different question. They want to know if this can become a real tech hub. That is a fair question....
Manjeri does not look like a tech town at first glance. Then you walk past Silicon Jeri, and you see a second structure taking shape next to it. That second structure has a name now: Zil Park. Zil Park is not a finished product. It is the next phase of Silicon...
Six months ago, the ground behind a school in Manjeri sat empty most evenings. Now it fills up by 6 p.m. with software engineers still in their work shirts, chasing a football or arguing about a cricket lbw call. Key takeaways Silicon Jeri’s young workforce...
A software developer in Manjeri gets a job offer. She has no idea if the pay is fair. In Bangalore, she could check three job portals and ask five friends in an hour. In Manjeri, there is no local list to check and almost no one nearby doing the same job to ask. This...
