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Silet Valley National Park

These pictures have been taken during my stay in the Silent Valley National Park over the past nine months. I had ventured into this year-long project voluntarily as I was inspired by some of the great people who worked hard to preserve this biodiversity for the generations-to-come. Their dedication, commitment and perseverance paved way to the Silent Valley tropical rain forests being declared as a National Park in November 1984.

What trail worth remembering would I be leaving if I don't capture this legacy?

I dedicate my work to the movement behind the existence of the "Greatest Expression of Life on Earth".

I am aware that I have managed to cover only one percent of this biodiversity. I am happy that I have made this attempt as part of the preservation campaign. I hope that my pictures will serve as an eye opener to the people who are still not convinced about what the Silent Valley National park holds in her bosom and are trying to asphyxiate the life that is bubbling in these forests in the name of development.

This is just a beginning and I sincerely hope that my attempt would contribute a drop to the ocean of the Save Silent Valley Campaign.

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My photographs here are the product of long years of my committed and often tiring, painful efforts to know my land, my roots. This web site aims to kindle the inquisitiveness of those wishing to know Malabar visually. A place where legends, lores and realities fuse seamlessly into a vibrant melange of traditions, culture, unique landscapes, against the backdrop of a long and tumultous history.

I hope you would find that many of these pictures transcend the realms of mundane chronicling or mere imagination. They span the last ten years of Malabar. Malabar is changing rapidly and many of these images have since become a collective memory. Like elsewhere, Malabar too is coping with the erosion of its hoary cultural heritages and values, and some of its fast depleting natural resources, are already facing extinction.

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