"At The Blue Yonder,we will lead you away from all that you think is Kerala. Instead we will help you discover a horizon that is all yours, in ways you never thought possible before.
The Blue Yonder : Because we know different people need different kind of horizons."
The photograph in the above advert is from a tea shop when I went for location scouting three years before along the banks of River Nila. When we were looking for experiences that would excite our guests, this shop was the first thing that came to my mind. Without some "puttu", "pappadam" and "karingaali vellam"(warm herbal water) and ubiquitous newspapers, what is Kerala(m)!?
Today, as a mere coincidence, we ended up exactly in front of this "tea-shop" near Kudalur, while Justin got out of the car to shoot one huge house being built on the banks of the rivers.
We have been literally criss-crossing three districts of Malappuram, Palakkad and Thrissur, while looking for issues related to climate changes. It was becoming more and more obvious to us, that though climate changes like global warming and rise in the sea leves along the coastal villages of Kerala have started affecting the lifestyle of a Malayali, it is the human intervention (building of dams, sand mining and deforestation) that is causing more concerns in a short term.
To be in the middle of paddy field in Palakkad district and interviewing farmers when the temperature was shooting above 39 degree Celsius today wasn't probably the best idea of giving rest to the much tired body!
Tirur © GP 2007
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