The Switch to Koodamkulam

The Indian Express, Delhi, Sunday - March - 25, 2012




 With the Tamil Nadu Govt's nod to the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, the protesters and the scientists are preparing for a final push. Shaju Philip travels to idinthakarai, the epicenter of the resistance against the plant. Photographs by Nirmal Harindran

Sea Hunters being hunted

Indian Express, Delhi, 26 - February, 2012

Last week, when an Italian ship fired at a Boat off the Kerala coast, killing two fishermen, the echoes were felt in Thoothoor, a panchayath in Kanyakumari district whose fishermen and boats are spread across India's western and eastern coasts.

Report by Shaju Philip

Photographs by Nirmal Harindran

Looking back at Christmas.... Looking forward to Life..

The Indian Express, Delhi, 25Th December 2011

There is no Christmas star outside Cletus Fernandez' sea facing house. There hasn't been one since 2004, when a day after Christmas, a Tsunami rolled over Azheekal village in Kerala's Kollam district.


Read E paper @ : http://epaper.indianexpress.com/20234/Indian-Express/25-December-2011#page/14/2

Divided by a Dam

Indian Express 4th December 2011

Vallakkadavu village - down the nose of Mullaperiyar Dam.

Balu, a Tamilian from Vallakadavu, Kerala express his worries regarding the routes of the oncoming water if something unfortunate happens.

One of the many worried families in Vallakadavu Village, whose members are staying close to each other these days.

Lakshmiyamma in front of her damaged home from Vallakadavu.

A village from Theni district, Tamil Nadu which would have been a desert if not for the Mullaperiyar water.

" Our lives and cultivation are completely linked to the water from Mullaperiyar. If the water level is reduced our supply will be affected " says Sreedharan a paddy farmer from Cumbum, Tamil Nadu.

Day in progress from paddy fields in Cumbum, Tamil Nadu.

Karthika Deepam, 2011

Tripunithura poornathrayeesa temple vrischika festival 2011

In Migrants Own Country

Indian Express,  24-July-2011  National Edition

Read article @ : http://epaper.indianexpress.com/8530/Indian-Express/24-July-2011#p=page:n=14:z=1

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While Keralites continue to migrate to the Middle East, semi-skilled and unskilled laboureres from the north and east of India flock to the high-wage state to fill the vaccum.


Report by Shaju Philip, Photographs by Nirmal Harindran