Ask someone in Manjeri if Silicon Jeri has changed the town, and most will say yes. Ask the same question in Perinthalmanna or Kondotty, and the answer gets a lot less certain. That gap is worth looking at directly instead of glossing over it. A single campus can pull...
Ten years ago, the land around what is now the Silicon Jeri campus grew coconuts and paddy. Today, some of those same plots hold office buildings, parking areas, and access roads. What happened to the people who owned that land? Key takeaways Land near the Silicon...
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...
A school playground in Manjeri needed new volleyball nets last year. Nobody wrote a press release about it. A small team from a startup working out of Silicon Jeri simply covered the cost and moved on. This kind of thing is easy to miss. It is small, it is quiet, and...
A flight from Dubai to Kozhikode takes about four hours. For a small group of founders, that short hop ended a much longer detour, one that ran through Gulf offices and Bangalore coworking floors, before it landed back home in Manjeri. These are not employees who came...