The Ela Journal » kayal island retreat

The second edition of ‘Rooted’ features Maneesha Panicker, Founder, Kayal Island Retreat who quit her life in New York, to start this tranquil boutique resort on the Kerala backwaters, as an ode to slow travel. 

‘You will meet a Malayalee on the moon,’ is a joke you have probably heard often, as a tribute to the resourcefulness of the Malayalee diaspora when it comes to investigating and adapting to new shores.