Kottayam (in Malayalam:കോട്ടയം) is a city and a municipality in the Indian state of Kerala. An important trading center of commercial crops and a publishing centre in Kerala, Kottayam is also the administrative capital of Kottayam District. The town has been in the forefront of modern education in Kerala from the nineteenth century. In 1989 it achieved the distinction of being the first municipal town in India to achieve 100% literacy. Kottayam is a very tropical area with many islands and beaches.
Little do men percieve what solitue is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
