Pathanamthitta is a city and a municipality in Pathanamthitta district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the headquarters of Pathanamthitta district in the Central Travancore region in South Central Kerala.
The town's name is a combination of two Malayalam
words pathanam and thitta, which together mean "houses
by the riverside".
Pathanamthitta is a fast-developing town and business center. It is the main transport hub to the famous Hindu pilgrim center of Sabarimala.
Pathanamthitta is a cosmopolitan city, with peoples of different faiths like Hindus, Christians, and Muslims.
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.