Kinnakorai

Kinnakorai is a village in Attapady hills of Palakkad District, Kerala. The village consists of about 500 houses and sits about 60 km from Ooty Town, 135 km from Coimbatore city, 100 km from Mannarkad and 60 km from Mulli. The closest town Manjoor is 30 km by road.Previously, coffee was grown but now the main income source is tea cultivation. Apart from tea, people cultivate vegetable gardens for household use.The nearest railway station to Kinnakorai is Lovedale which is located in and around 44.8 km distance.LanguagesBadaga is the main language for in this village, which has no script and spoken by about 245,000 Badagas in 200 villages in the Nilgiris.ReligionBadagas worship several Hindu deities, including Shiva. But their main deity is "IYYA and HETTY" and they celebrate "Devva Habba" in a grand fashion which spreads over a month during June -July every year, and the festival is celebrated all over the district.