Karuvarakundu is small town in the eastern part of Malappuram district, Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It is situated 32 kilometres (19.9 mi) from Manjeri

Manjeri

Manjeri is a town and municipality in Malappuram District in the state of Kerala, India. It is the commercial capital of Malappuram District and is 28 km from an international airport and 50 km from Kozhikode railway station....

 and 10 kilometres (6 mi) each from Melattur

Melattur

Melattur is a town in Malappuram district of Kerala. It is situated on the banks of the Olippuzha river. The name Melattur came from the malayalam words 'Mele' , 'Aaru' and 'Ooru' ; i.e., 'place near upstream'. There are places named Edayattur , and Keezhattur on the banks of the river Olippuzha...

 and Kalikavu

Kalikavu

Kalikavu is a small town in Nilambur taluk of Malappuram district in Kerala state, South India. Like the neighbouring town of Nilambur, Kalikavu is also known for rubber plantation. Coconut, pepper, arecanut, and teak are also cultivated here....

. The Olippuzha River flows through the town, which is a tributary of the Kadalundipuzha

Kadalundipuzha River

Kadalundipuzha is one of the four most important rivers flowing through the Malappuram district in the state of Kerala, India. The other three are the Chaliyar, the Bharathapuzha and the Tirur River....

. Karuvarakundu is very near to the Western Ghats

Western Ghats

The Western Ghats, Western Ghauts or the Sahyādri is a mountain range along the western side of India. It runs north to south along the western edge of the Deccan Plateau, and separates the plateau from a narrow coastal plain along the Arabian Sea. The Western Ghats block rainfall to the Deccan...

 and hence prone to landslides. There are many tea

Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world...

 and rubber

Rubber

Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined...

 plantation

Plantation

A plantation is a long artificially established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption...

s in and around Karuvarakundu. The name Karuvarakundu means habitat of the blacksmith

Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a person who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal; that is, by using tools to hammer, bend, and cut...

, indicating the town's history as a metalworking centre.
Nilambur

Nilambur

Nilambur is a municipality and a taluk in the Malappuram district of Kerala, South India. It is famous for its forests, especially its wildlife habitats, rivers, waterfalls and teak plantations. It is situated close to the Nilgiris range of the Western Ghats on the banks of the Chaliyar River...

is very near from here.We can find some reference on Karuvarakundu in MT's famous novel ARABIPONNU