 Richard W. Franke: Kerala Vistors
Information Page
Phone: 973-655-4133; Fax: 973-655-7755;
e-mail franker@mail.montclair.edu
Want to visit Kerala? The best way
is a
Global Exchange Kerala Reality Tour. You will
meet ordinary people, political leaders and activists
in settings where you can discuss politics, history, and culture.
Excellent translation services
will be provided when necessary.
Start with the Kerala Fact Sheet.
Tentative 2005 Tour Activities in
Approximate Order from Nov 16 to Nov 30 (Many
of these sites are likely to be on the 2006 trip as well):
Payannur Municipality
Solid Waste Processing Plant
Janatha Milk Cooperative Society and Handloom Weaving Centre
Kankol-Alappadamp: Women's Self-Help Garment and Soap Production Units
Kerala Dinesh Beedi: Democratic Worker-Owned and
Worker-Managed Cooperative
Kannur Historical Sites: Fort St. Angelo and Sundareswara
Temple
Calicut:
Kerala
People's Science Movement President Prof. K. Papputty
Olavanna Village: Drinking Water
Cooperatives
Panjal Village:
Paddy fields, local shrines, village layout, former untouchable colony,
village library, school, historical sites of Anti-Caste Agitations
and Land Reform Movement. Traditional Kerala Vegetarian Lunch
Thrissur: Vadakkumnatha Temple and Dolours Basilica
COSTFORD: Low-cost Appropriate Technology House Construction
Guruvayur Temple Elephants
Ashtavaidyan Thykkattumoose
Vaidyaratnam Nursing homea major
traditional Ayurvedic treatment centre in Keralaat
Ollur
Cochin: Dutch Palace,
Cochin Synagogue, Spice Market, Chinese Fishing Nets,
St. Francis Church
Ernakulam: Thrikkakara Cooperative Hospital
Ernakulam: Biological Mosquito Control Project
Ernakulam: Open Software Solutions
Mararikulam: Balakairali Pre-School Experiment
(pdf file)
Mararikulam: Coir
Production Facility
Mararikulam: Vembanad Lake Boat Cruise
Thiruvananthapuram (Tvm): Geographer and Environmentalist
Dr. Srikumar Chattopadhyay of the
Centre for Earth Science Studies
Tvm: Historian Dr. P. K. Michael Tharakan
Tvm: Dr. T. M. Thomas Isaac, Economist and State Assembly Member
Tvm: Karakulam Village Rural Study Centre
Tvm: Women's Movement Activist and Malayalam Literature Professor Dr. T. N.
Seema
Tvm: Kerala Council for Historical Research and Director Dr. P. J. Cherian
Tvm:
Centre for Development Studies
and Economist Dr. K. N. Harilal
Tvm: Bus Trip to Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin), southern tip of India where 3
oceans meet.
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