Tuesday, July 1, 2008

My Place, my Land.

These fotos are taken by my friends and me. It goes thru our homeland - Kerala, which is at the northern tip of India.
This is my friend on the rock near to his house. I never thoughts rocks also had beauty until I saw these pics taken by them.

Aren't they beautiful?
The road is not tarred. But it brings the picture of a remote village in India- and nostalgia for me.
There are some friends of me on the bridge.
The highway of a remote village in India. No traffic( and no traffic rules! :) ), no signals, no overbridges.... I love this roads.


Some more beautiful rocks.
These houses are called 'Illam". They are houses of high caste hindus in Kerala. They are old now, used for film shooting.
The below foto shows the 'Nadumuttam' of an 'Illam'. 'Nadumuttam' is an opening at the centre of the house, with no roof above it.
These houses may have stories of Kings and Queens to tell, if they could speak.

The below foto was taken for the festival "Vishu"(a Hindu's festival), at my friend's home.
This is a "Vishukkani", and the fight sight to see on the day of "Vishu" should be this. That means, you should come with your eyes closed and open only when you reaches here.
This is the "Sadhya" of a Malayalee, you can say it is our national food. Usually it is eaten from a banana leaf, and there are rules by which you should keep each item in which place. The tip of the leaf should point to your left. The rice is put in the free half of the leaf. Isn't that great?
Below pic show (my) river, with the sun shining on its surface.

2 comments:

Umm Ibrahim said...

Assalaamu alaikum,

Didn't notice that you also have this photo blog sister - Have gone through all the posts and love the photos of India so much. Masha'Allah what a country of diversity that I wish I could visit one day.

I have an old photo that I would like to scan when I have some time insha'Allah that contains old pictures of India - I am wondering if Kerala covers the whole of Northern India...? I think the photos I have were taken in the north, near to the Himalayas, one village mentioned is Chakrata.

Najeeba said...

Salam sis,
India is a beautiful place( although I haven't seen 99% of the country). You are welcome to India. Kerala doesn't cover the entire south India. There is the Tamil-Nadu and other southern states. The Himalayas are also a beauty, but I have never seen it. Some 3000 Kms far away. I wish to go there one day. And yeah, I want to walk around the whole world one day. ;-)