For almost two years now, we — Lena, Andrey, and our fluffy lady, the Norwich Terrier Shanya (a.k.a. Shining Diamond Lekato Venus) — have been settled in the Indian state of Kerala, not far from its capital city whose very name provokes a mild sense of panic in anyone attempting to pronounce it: Thiruvananthapuram. Even the locals themselves prefer to call it Trivandrum. Or simply TRV. If you dig just a few centimeters deeper, you’ll discover that even the state’s name is sup