Ask a startup founder in a small town who is hardest to find, and you may hear “a designer.” Ask a fine-arts graduate in the same town what job they can get, and you may hear “I am not sure.” That gap is a quiet one. It is also a chance. As...
A team of four used to need a team of ten. Now, in many small offices, that gap is starting to close. The reason is not money or a bigger city. It is a new set of AI tools that anyone with a phone and a curious mind can try. For a small town hub like Manjeri, that...
Say “tech hub” and most people picture a glass tower in a big city. Say “Manjeri” and they picture something else entirely, a Kerala town rather than a technology center. So when we talk about Manjeri turning into Silicon Jeri, the first...
Ask a young person in Manjeri about Silicon Jeri, and you may hear about startups and laptops. Ask someone older, and you may hear about a market, a football match, and a letter from abroad. Both stories belong to the same town. This piece tries to hold them together,...
Two people can earn the same tech salary and live very different lives. One feels stretched every month. The other quietly builds savings. The difference is rarely the pay slip. It is where the money goes after it lands. That is a big reason a tech hub in a small town...
