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...
A company based at Silicon Jeri in Manjeri recently filled an engineering role with someone who lives 400 kilometers away, in a small town most people outside Tamil Nadu have never heard of. That engineer has never visited Manjeri. He has no plan to move there either....
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...
