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Hello readers, I am back from a break. I was occupied at my professional front. Thanks for the wait and also for the opinions and appreciations through Whats App, Face book and in person.  In my first blog I gave an idea about some diversities in Palakkad. The second blog started with Malampuzha and  focused on Yakshi. My third blog was dedicated to the Malampuzha gardens and its attractions. Now let's return to the other parts of Palakkad. While travelling back to other parts of Palakkad, from Malampuzha, the first stop is Fantasy Park. It is the first amusement park of Kerala as per my knowledge. An attraction among the tourists coming to Malampuzha. I am not going to explain much about what is in Fantasy Park as it's more than 2 decades that I have visited the place and I don't have much memories about that visit. Moving further ahead we pass the water purification and pumping station. Malampuzha Dam is the source of water for majority of the people in Palakkad t

Hello readers, I am back after a short break. I got several awesome suggestions and encouragement from my readers. Thanks readers for reading my blogs and encouraging me.   I used this short break to work upon my third blog incorporating the suggestions.  We were speaking about Malampuzha Dam and gardens in the last blog, I devoted a lion's share of the blog to describe about Yakshi. Now I will write about rest of the Garden and the places around the garden. I'll start with the  hanging bridge, that i have mentioned in my last blog, built  across the main dam canal. The whole bridge is suspended with heavy metallic cables with wooden platform. When you walk through it, the bridge will be shaking and slightly screeching creating an excitement or fear depending on your mental strength.  In the book Alchemist by Paulo Coelho there is a scene were the hero Santiago meets the Alchemist. To answer his queries Alchemist share the story of a wise man and a boy. The story goes lik

So after the introductory part, I am getting into the attractions of Palakkad. I will start with Malampuzha. Malampuzha means river from mountains ( mala = mountain & puzha = river) unless someone with impish brain ( yeah you guessed it right, like that of mine) break the words and make it sound a river of shit    (malam= shit & puzha = river).  I think I visited Malampuzha for the first time when i was a kid of 4-5 years with my dad. He used to own a Lambretta scooter then.  I remember being to the aquarium, walking through the hanging bridge, visiting the beautiful awe inspiring Yakshi..  Let me take you through some information about Malampuzha Malampuzha dam was a project of building a water reservoir in the malampuzha river. The project started in the year 1949 and got completed in 1955. Record time of 6 years. Wikipidea says that Malampuzha is the largest reservoir of Kerala. The dam has a holding capacity of 8000 meter cubes. The dam is an awesome view with the Sahy

Arun why don't you start writing?????   This is is something that I have heard a lot from some friends of me with whom I have had long chats on various topics. and get me in front of my laptop fully charged to pour out my mind and mould  what ever comes out into something readable. But the moment I think what to write or where to start the fire inside me vanishes. And I am back to the normal Arun.  It was recently that I spoke to Shalu, a friend of mine,  a writer herself, about this getting charged and discharged with the idea of writing. She saw my two micro blogs, about my Palakkad, in another site and asked me two combine the micro blogs and then build upon it.  Yeah it's a good idea!!!!! I'll be starting at last... So I decided to write about Palakkad, the place where I belongs to, the place which give me lot of insights through experience, the place which has given birth to lot of people who has contributed to our country and world in multiple arenas..... Palak