A.J. JOJI

Photographer

Since 1991 Joji turned his attention to photography as a full time activity with particular interest in recording the social, cultural and political landscape of Kerala.

AGHIL MENON

Photographer

While he is searching for the right frame, he believes, that art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Perhaps he is lost in Pondicherry or found in Cochin.

AJAY MENON

Photographer

Ajay met his true passion in photography when he started traveling around Kerala, where nature is at its best. With his eye for detail he captures moments without losing its real essence, in a way of his own.

ANANDU RADHAKRISHNAN

Photographer

He believes, that all the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within him. But he asks: "Burn me a cigarette, buy me a beer till l'm happy to be here!"

ANANYA RAJOO

Writer

"The search for stories always takes us to the streets of Cochin. The people we meet and the places we discover are so diverse that with each passing day, we stumble upon more and more intriguing facets of our city."

ATHEENA WILSON

Style & Fashion Expert

Run parallel, meet at intersections, skip a few lines, the line of thought has journeyed across a few latitudes and longitudes. To more miles before the big sleep. Cheers, Atheena

BABY MATHEW

Founder & Director

In 1985 he has founded the world’s first ayurveda tourist resort Somatheeram and spread the message of Ayurveda across the globe.

BANDISH PROJEKT

Artist

Bandish Projekt is the pseudonym of composer, producer, DJ and multi-instrumentalist Mayur Narvekar. Bandish Projekt is a musical act featuring a blend of Indian elements in an electronica format.

BEABARS APPESH

Artist

Tree veneration is the essence of the Circassian way of life and Circassiansm, and it was the turning point which transformed the primitive human, into one with understanding and appreciation towards nature and his relation to it.

BIJU IBRAHIM

Photographer

He captures the essence of rustic geographies, the people who are now becoming archive of the earth, the mythic & mystery of spaces & places, alleys of now filled with the density of then or before.

CATALINA - IOANA PAVEL

Ayurveda Expert

Catalina is interested in the history of Malabar region, spice routes and anything related to the Islamic history in India. She studies Arabic, Hindi and Malayalam language.

CGH EARTH

Art Ogranisation

CGH Earth Hotels & Resorts create travel experiences that let you explore nature, community and culture intimately. These experiences are themed around you - your awareness and aspirations!

CLIFF VIEW AYURVEDA RETREAT

Hotels & Resorts

The newly build resort situated on the cliff above the famous Chowara Beach. It is tastefully combining modern architectonical design with Indian spirit of authentic ayurveda.

DHEERAJ THAKUR

Photographer

Self-satisfaction that leads to recognition. A candid yet complicated belief. Especially for an artist who strive to strike that balance at each stage.

DIBIN THILANKAN

Artist

Art for me is a process of mediation between myself and the world around me. The process of image making takes me into the strange and hidden parts of myself.

DR. CIJITH SREEDHAR

Naturopathy Doctor

Your vitality is affected by the amount of accumulated toxins in the body. Naturopathy treatment process enhances the elimination of toxins, helps in maintaining the pH of cells and prevents degeneration.

DR.AATHIRA THANKACHAN

Ayurveda Doctor

The resort offers open artistic space which connects all the elements of the earth with individual being. There, all the aspects of the ayurveda healing are trying to bring body, mind and soul back into balance.

DR.ANAND P. NAIR

Ayurveda Doctor

Resort is built in the Bauhaus style, which aims to reunite fine art and functional design, creating practical objects with the soul of artworks. It embrace the philosophy of traditional Ayurveda in modern style.

DR.BINOD SYDNEY

Ayurveda Doctor

The first thing I want from patients is to smile and to be friendly with me. When I am friendly, they would be friendly. When we are friendly only then energy would be passing and the treatment works.

DR.CHANDRASHEKAR

Ayurveda Guru

In his personality dwells the true spirt of Kairali - The Ayurvedic Healing Village. He represents the essence of ancient ayurvedic practices and traditions preserved for modern living.

DR.D.HARSHAD

Ayurveda Doctor

Day by day, I started to understand that Ayurveda is more than a subject it is a science that helps you to remould yourself to get in evenness with the nature outside.

DR.FIROZ VARUN

Ayurveda Doctor

Ayurveda has many definitions as medical science. But the main idea of Ayurveda, not treating the diseases. We should see and take it as a part of our life and self-exploration. For me ayurveda means everything.

DR.GEORGE EASSEY

Ayurveda Doctor

Titled as “Roving Ambassador of Ayurveda”, belongs to the first generation of Ayurvedic practitioners and teachers who have pioneered the way for Ayurveda's recognition as a mainstream system of medicine.

DR.HEMALATHA MANOJ

Ayurveda Doctor

"Ayurveda is a divine science of life, our hands should be pure to treat a patient. Sometimes we are not able to cure every one but it is important not to make any mistakes from our hands. We pray to God."

DR.JOUHAR KANJHIRHLA

Ayurveda Doctor

Kalari Kovilakom gives you something valuable. A chance to begin your life all over again. Every therapy is personal, treatments are individually developed to provide deep-seated, lasting change from within.

DR.K.P. HEMA

Ayurveda Doctor

Life according to Ayurveda is a combination of the body, senses, mind, and soul. When these four factors are held together, life exists. A healthy life depends on the harmony at all these levels.

DR.M.H. ILIAS

Art Ogranisation

Professor & Director, School of Gandhian Thoughts and Development Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.

DR.M.S. BAIJU

Ayurveda Doctor

Ananda Lakshmi Ayurveda Retreat is a place for everyone, who appreciate a family atmosphere, a peaceful environment, traditional authentic ayurveda, and space for the rejuvenation of body, mind, and soul.

DR.ROHIT KUMAR

Ayurveda Doctor

Kairali - The Ayurvedic Healing Village is situated in the Palakkad. There is no better place to get inside nature and rejuvenate with herbal medicine. It offers authentic healing practices of ancient India.

DR.SEENA RAJENDRAN

Ayurveda Doctor

"All the medicines, treatments, internal and external therapies are based on the spiritual aspects of a person. If we treat a patient only for the body, it won't work - the mind and the soul should be involved."

DR.SRI KUMAR

Ayurveda Doctor

Although he has his own practice focused on neurology and epilepsy, he turned his a 170 year old painstakingly restored royal heritage homestead into ayurvedic divine abode ‘Harivihar’.

DR.VENUGOPAL V.A.

Ayurveda Guru

Narayana! When you say this potent positive word, he is around, as a ayurveda lifestyle ambassador, yoga practitioner, pranic healer, traditional counselor and promoter of many traditional alternative therapies.

G.VENKET RAM

Photographer

In a befitting tribute to one of India’s greatest painters, Raja Ravi Varma, a Chennai based photographer G. Venket Ram has recreated 12 of Varma’s iconic paintings into photographs.

GALLERY OED COCHIN

Art Ogranisation

The art gallery in the heart of Cochin, regularly holds shows that feature local and internationally renowned contemporary artists, curated by some of the finest talents in the field.

GAYATRI IYER

Writer

She is lifelong traveler, entrepreneur and artist. Her failure was her success, for it lifted her up to a whole new level of self awareness and an unwavering commitment to her dreams. How you may ask?

GITA RAMESH

Founder & Director

She is heart and soul behind the Kairali Group since its inception. Her status as a pioneer in the health and travel industry is reflected in award "Best Woman Entrepreneur for Promoting Wellness, 2010".

HANAH LIFE

Ayurveda Resort

HANAH’s mission is to preserve ancient medical wisdom by evolving it into remedies for modern living. It has attracted fans and ambassadors including Jimmy Chin, Travis Rice, Ian Walsh and Bibi McGill.

ILONA BANSAL

Diet & Culinary Expert

My journey with Indian cooking begun very romantically, I fell in love! I met my husband, born and brought up in India, and I have realised, that he can not live without "his" Indian food. Love goes through the stomach!

IVANA BALDO

Yoga Expert

Ivana was always attracted to flying and travelling. As a stewardess of Czech Airlines she visited Mumbai for the first time in 1991 and immediately fell in love with India. Her new lifestyle became ayurveda and yoga.

JOEL EINHORN

Founder & Director

HANAH’s mission is to preserve ancient medical wisdom by evolving it into remedies for modern living. It has attracted fans and ambassadors including Jimmy Chin, Travis Rice, Ian Walsh and Bibi McGill.

JOEY L.

Photographer

Joey has been listed as one of the “Most Influential Photographers on Social Media” and Complex Magazine named him one of the “30 Photographers under 30 to Watch”. Visit www.joeyl.com

JOSE DOMINIC

Ayurveda Expert

His company CGH Earth create travel experiences that let you explore nature, community and culture intimately. These experiences are themed around you - your awareness and aspirations!

JYOTIKA JAIN

Photographer

Her photographic odyssey began with a project in which she documented the ladies special trains and compartments of the local trains in Mumbai. She is currently documenting the dying Jewish community of India.

KAIRALI GROUP

Ayurveda Resort

Launched the first ayurvedic centre in New Delhi in 1989 followed by The Ayurvedic Healing Village at Palakkad, Kerala in 1999. Today the company under its umbrella has over thirty centres in India and abroad.

KAREL VORISEK

Artist

Czech TV anchor, voted five times as the most popular TV person on the screen! He wrote a book, how to stop eating buns and start being happy in any stage of your life!

KERALA TOURISM

Tourism Organisation

God’s Own Country's official Government of Kerala, Department of Tourism, organisation. The state tourism department has been proactive in showcasing the destination globally with its many innovative road shows.

KR SUNIL

Photographer

He finds extraordinary stories in ordinary people. Believes, you should be one of them; for that you should be the kind that loves humanity. He doesn’t carry fancy cameras, that would separate him from them.

MANEESHA PANIKER

Founder & Director

In another life, she was no different from you. She lived in New York, worked in the bustling, mega metropolis and loved every moment of it. But home was Kerala. Kayal, Her latest project, is a boutique island retreat in the backwaters of Kerala.

MARNIE DEAN

Artist

Artist, curator, writer and psychotherapist from Australia. She crossed the continents and lived few years in India, where she curated and also exhibited her own work during Kochi Muziris Biennale 2012.

MEYDAD ELIYAHU

Artist

Meydad is an artist, researcher and curator who lives and works in Jerusalem. Born in a community of Kerala Cochin Jews, he has been researching the history of his family since childhood.

MIKA DE BRITO

Yoga Teacher

Mika started yoga at aged 21 with Baptiste Marceau, one of France's foremost Astanga teachers. He was a musician at that time, though yoga had such a pull for him that he left Paris to concentrate on teaching. He started to travel the world, from New York to Morocco to Mongolia to give classes and retreats.

MINI CHANDRAN

Ayurveda Expert

In SwaSwara you evolve along with the place. There's so much openness, that you yourself, start opening up. You see things in a new light and a better perspective. That's what happens in SwaSwara.

MUSEUM OF GOA

Art Ogranisation

Museum of Goa (MOG) is a private contemporary art space. Founded by Dr. Subodh Kerkar in 2015, the Museum celebrates Goa’s history and people through contemporary art.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ANCIENT ART

Art Ogranisation

Created in 1884, and housed in the Palacio Alvor for almost 130 years, the museum has had its current title for more than a century. It is the home to the most important Portuguese public collection of art.

NIRVAANA BOUTIQUE RESORT

Ayurveda Resort

A small piece of your very own heaven. Such are the words used to describe this stunning and architecturally fascinating 5 bedroom villa perched on a cliff overlooking the Arabian sea. Literally where eagles dare!

PARAG SONARGHARE

Artist

Often mistaken for photographs, his troubling paintings of faces and bare bodies design a carefully linked chain on the compelling ways that material, subject, and sensibility can align on canvas.

PAULA BRACONNOT

Artist

She loves to help people BLOOM. She tests alchemist formula VITRIOL: Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem (Visit the interior of the earth and rectifying you will find the hidden stone).

PETR HORKY

Travel Expert

Director, producer, writer, organiser of the longest Czech expedition to North Pole and many travel festivals and travel events such as World Film or Neznama Zeme (Unknown World).

PHOTOMAIL

Online Magazine

Photo Mail online magazine is initiated by Ekalokam Trust for Photography, a non-profit foundation dedicated to create, share, and promote contemporary photography and allied lens-based art forms.

PRINCESS GOURI PARVATHI BAYI

Ayurveda Expert

The Travancore Kingdom Royalty are considered the descendants of the Gods and ancient Cheras, Venad, Pandya and Chola dynasties, who brought the philosophy of ayurveda to the world.

RAGHU ANANTHANARAYANAN

Yoga Expert

Three extraordinary teachers mentored me Krishnamurti, Krishnamacharya and P.K.Garg. This engagement transformed me and gifted me with the path that I have walked, my sAdhana.

RAJESH SISHUPALAN

Diet & Culinary Expert

Vegetarian ayurvedic diet is part of the individual treatment programme. All dishes are based on local recipes, cooked from organic vegetables and fruits, it helps foreigners to adjust to ayurveda diet.

RIMA KALLINGAL

Artist

The actress, who dances through all life difficulties with unpretended intelligence, beauty and charm. With the mirror in her eyes, she can be even Cruella de Vil.

RIYAS KOMU

Founder & Director

Riyas Komu is one of the prominent political artists in the contemporary times. His works question the existing disturbances in the social order. Komu's works include sculptures, installations, paintings, video etc.

ROUTE COCHIN

Online Magazine

The online magazine delves deep into the history and culture of Kochi, through stories unearthing its eventful past, exploring the interesting juncture the city is at today and envisaging the days to come.

SAMYAK DRISTI

Art Ogranisation

Photography magazine promote documentary photography that gives voice to the human condition in such a way that it inspires and enable positive change.

SEA EYMERE

Photographer

Born and raised in Paris, she has always been looking at the horizon. The city that nourished her, it was her trampoline for courageous free flight around this planet. It’s inspiring to keep up with her.

SHUBIGI RAO

Artist

Artist, writer and curator of KMB 2022 titled In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire, the exhibition will bring together 80 artists and collectives with over 45 new commissions.

SUBODH KERKAR

Artist

Medical professional who gave up medicine to pursue arts 30 years ago. He has carved a niche for himself, especially in the field of conceptual art and land art. He is the founding director of Museum of Goa.

SUDHITH XAVIER

Photographer

"We love Cochin walks and talks, especially with people who share a similar love, fascination and passion for the place. We are excited about meeting travellers, the vibrant souls with unquenched curiosity."

SUSAN BEAULAH

Artist

For over ten years, Susan, a landscape painter, documented the Kerala Chakara, a unique fishing phenomena on the coast of Kerala, South India.

SWANOOP JOHN

Photographer

Art. Travel. Music. He has in the frame, while he is focusing his lenses on Kochi Muziris Biennale artists. His head might be in Wayanad's clouds, but his mind is spelled by the performance of Theyyam dancers.

TANYA ABRAHAM

Artist

Tanya is a curator at Kashi Art Gallery and author of the book Fort Kochi, History. Working on Jewish history with the artists is, to her, the bringing alive of a past closely attached to the fabric of Kochi’s society.

THE TEAM OF NATTIKA AYURVEDA DOCTORS

Ayurveda Doctor

Lead by Dr.K.P.Hema, answers the questions about ayurveda treatment and healing, yoga, meditation, diet, life style, history, philosophy, but also give practical advices for daily life and traveling.

THE TRAVANCORE HERITAGE

Ayurveda Resort

It's a journey back in time through vintage Travancore, experiencing the glorious ethos and cultural moorings. Built with recreated palaces and 'nalukettus' of vintage Kerala is situated on the pristine beach.

THOUFEEK ZAKRIYA

Artist

Chef de Calligraphy! Indian Muslim who does calligraphy in Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Syrian, Samaritan and English. A brilliant amateur researcher and historian, who cooks in the luxury restaurants in Dubai!

TITO STANLEY S.J.

Artist

My most recent works are representations of landscapes that symbolise the way religion impacts the consciousness of a human being. They depict the confusion of my mind.

TOLIS FRAGOUDIS

Photographer

In my world the most important thing is "be your self and do your thing". We don't need to invent a story, you are the story. The more natural you are the better. Visit TolisArt.com

URU ART HARBOUR

Art Ogranisation

URU art harbour is a cultural hub situated at Kochi. URU seeks to be a space for collaboration and a continual hub for artistic, cultural, and intellectual exploration. Founded by Riyas Komu and Zoya Riyas.

VENKITESWARAN C.S.

Artist

Indian film critic, professor, documentary film maker and writer from Chalakudi, Kerala. He writes predominantly in English and Malayalam. He won the National Film Award for Best Film Critic in 2009.

VIMAL CHANDRAN

Artist

Vimal Chandran is a multidisciplinary visual artist from India who majorly works on illustrations, photography and film. His works are inspired from native folk tales, pop culture, poetry and childhood memories.

VISWOM JOHN CHARLY

Photographer

They call him Magic, because he can see invisible rays of the light coming through the clouds on the earth, painting the fantasy pictures, which are visible only through camera lenses.

ZAINA EL-SAID

Artist

Zaina’s collage art focuses on assembling many worlds into one, usually led by a protagonist; she focuses on mixing world cultures, architecture, motifs, archaeology, arts and nature into a single portrait.

ZUZANA ZWIEBEL

Ayurveda Expert

Founder & Director of Ayurveda Trails, healing collection of (extra)ordinary people and their stories, whose experiences are transferred into various trails shared by travelers.