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Photo Feature: An Eden with a serpent in Konni, Kerala

  From lush greenery to pristine rivers, the stunning beauty of Kerala’s Konni Even given Kerala’s propensity for verdant vegetation, one could well believe that this is some part of the Amazon rainforest! All photos by Sheila Kumar and subject to copyright. Sheila Kumar / September 27, 2017  Konni is a hill town in Pathanamthitta district,…

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Travel: Konni, Kerala

  ROAD LESS TRAVELLED  Eden, with its own river   Everything is  so green that it could hurt the eye of a non-Malayali. But then I`m a Malayali and in the interests of full disclosure,  this is a coming- back- home trip for me. This  homecoming is happening after more than two decades and Konni…

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Feature: The End Of An Era

Far away in a hill town, strong ties help a family continue a legacy of several generations.  He was a self-made man, a flinty kind of man, given more to fits of rage than much smiling. But he had foresight, lots of it. Chancing upon large tracts of untouched land in a southern corner of…

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