Idukki | Series | P. Sainath

The Edalippara Quintet: Anshila Devi, Uma Devi, Kalpana, Vaidehi and Jasmine

The Potato Song

You read about the wilderness library. Here is the wilderness school, where adorable tribal girls sing English songs in a village that doesn't speak English, in honor of the potato that they don't eat. [...]

June 26, 2014

P.V. Chinnathambi Irpakalukudi, Edmalakudi panchayat Idukki district Kerala

The wilderness library

At 73, P.V. Chinnathambi runs one of the loneliest libraries anywhere. In the middle of the forested wilderness of Kerala’s Idukki district, the library’s 160-books -- all classics -- are regularly borrowed, read, and returned by poor, Muthavan adivasis [...]

June 4, 2014

forest bridge made of made of bamboos, trees branches, creepers, ropes and stray pieces of wood

The elephant we couldn’t see

We had spent nearly an hour in the field with its tall grasses and many trees. In the company of a wild bull elephant we [...]

May 25, 2014