To overcome acute water scarcity in the area, around 300 women have turned well-diggers in a village in Pookkottukavu in Palakkad district of Kerala. The work is not just confined to young women. Even elderly women climb down pits using makeshift bamboo ladders and dig for hours using pickaxe and[Read More…]
Tag: Palakkad
This sanctuary has seen a rise in visitors just recently. Here’s why:
The number of visitors in Choolannur sanctuary in Palakkad, Kerala has gone up, days after a Rajasthan HC judge said that peacocks do not have sex and peahens get pregnant by drinking the tears of the peacock. Visitors coming to the sanctuary are queuing up at the peafowl to see[Read More…]