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Cities of Kerala, Actually Small Towns

Edited by Baiju Natarajan, Marg Pub, 2008, 161 p, photographs, ISBN : 818502684X, $85.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)

Contents: Foreword/Pratapaditya Pal. Introduction/Baiju Natarajan. 1. Thiruvananthapuram: City of a horizontal God/Paul Zacharia. 2. Kollam: Urbanization in tourism's own landscape/Annapurna Garimella. 3. Alapuzha: A hidden fortress made of water/Baiju Natarajan. 4. Kottayam: The hills are moist/C.R. Omanakuttan. 5. Kochi: The other city/T.V. Sajeev. 6. Thrissur: Round and around the town/Nalini Jameela. 7. Palakkad: Some threads including the sacred/E.P. Unny. 8. Kozhikode: Yesterday and today/M.G.S. Narayanan. 9. Kannur: Monumental, monolithic/Reshma Bharadwaj and Dileep Raj.

In Kerala, it is difficult to distinguish cities, towns, and villages. From Thiruvananthapuram in the South to Kannur in the North, it is one suburban stretch, at times village-like, at times city-like. As much as 75 per cent of Keralites continue to reside in villages which are fast becoming urban.

This book depicts present-day life in nine major cities/towns of Kerala through essays, specially taken photographs, and sketches. Most of the writers are Malayalis and have brought out the very urban, semi-urban, semi-rural mix that is a much a part of the Kerala landscape as its coastline, forests, and plantations."

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