A mélange of images from my thesis site at Bekal, a quaint little sea side village in North Kerala (former ly known as Malabar)……the sea, the beach sand and sand dunes, the gleaming Kalanad Backwaters dividing my site into two parts, the bright lateritic hills with sandalwood trees, the abandoned paddy fields bordered by the swaying coconut palms, a mystic Sacred Grove with flowering temple trees, a million birds and butterflies….