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Alleppey

/ ˈʌləpɪ /

noun

  1. a port in S India, in Kerala on the Malabar Coast. Pop: 177 079 (2001)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Another resident, Karni Kumar, lives far enough away from the main road that it’s more convenient to use a wooden boat to cross a small stretch of backwater to get fresh water from the neighboring district of Alleppey.

But so many other Chellanam families do the same thing that it can more than double the demand on a single tap in Alleppey — leading to long waits and occasional conflicts with Alleppey residents.

Ask for scallop alleppey, and you’ll get outsize bivalves draped with a sauce of mango and curry leaves.

At the Alleppey backwaters, we paddled quietly past families at work or play, spotting abundant birdlife on the way.

Long after he grew up and became a priest, Reverend Ipe continued to be known as Punnyan Kunju—Little Blessed One—and people came down the river in boats all the way from Alleppey and Ernakulam, with children to be blessed by him.

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