A south Indian state, famous for its languid backwaters and now famous for health tourism; several ancient techniques and systems of medicine like Ayurveda are still practised here. An environmental disaster, only cultivation and the lush greenery of coconut palms and rice paddies. No forests.

a southern coastal state of India, known for lagoons, coconuts, communism, female literacy, and characteristic English accent. Now, maybe God of Small Things, too.

a green strip of land, in the South West corner of Indian peninsula

One of the four states of South India

A state in the South west corner of India. Home of malayALees. More information.

(IPA: ; , Written as കേരളം in the native language Malayalam) is a state on the Western Coast of south-western India. To its east and north-east, Kerala borders Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; to its west lies the Arabian Sea and to its south the Indian Ocean islands of Lakshadweep and the Maldives, respectively. Kerala envelops Mahé, a coastal exclave of Pondicherry.