City of Letters

Kottayam is also called as "City of Letters" (അക്ഷര നഗരം) as many of the first Malayalam daily newspapers, like 

1. Deepika, 
2. Malayala Manorama, and 
3. Mangalam, 

were started and are headquartered in Kottayam, as are a number of publishing houses. 

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