Vinod Pillai

My travel notes from a drive through Wayanad to the tribal settlements of HD Kote taluk, Mysuru district The journey began in Calicut, the coastal plains giving way almost immediately to the climb into Wayanad. The road bends upward through coffee and pepper estates, mist settling over the ghats even in daylight, and somewhere past Sulthan Bathery the character of the land begins to shift — the Western Ghats folding into the forest belt that Wayanad shares with Bandipur, Nagarahole, and,...