A few days before New Year, we visited the famed Kappad beach in Calicut, a place of historical and geographical significance. Traders from Kuwait travelled to Calicut with dates and returned home with spices, cloth and wood. Vasco Da Gama, Portuguese explorer landed at the Kappad Beach on May 20, 1948. His voyage led to the discovery of an important sea route from Europe to India, followed by the Portuguese colonial holdings in several western coasts and regions in India, up until the independence of India from British colonial rule. Gazing at the seascape at Kappad beach, I couldn't help thinking .. if waters could speak and tell us all the stories that are wrapped secure in a bygone era. Is everything in history known to us today, and taught in schools, exactly what occured in history? There would been so much which we will never ever come to know.
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| Fisherman casting his net |
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| My son on the right with the driver (left) who took us to the Kappad Beach |
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So well written and adorned with gorgeous photographs....
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