Shots driving the roads of Tamil Nadu, from town to town, past fields and through small villages populated with friendly people. Tamil Nadu is the "rice-basket" of India.
1 Rice paddies and palm trees
2 Plowing a rice paddy with buffaloes
3 Replanting rice plants
4 The more affluent folks have machines to separate the rice
5 The less affluent ones use simpler, but perhaps equally effective, means
6 Plowing with buffaloes
7 Carrying produce on her head
8 Working in the rice paddies
9 Our wonderful driver, Senthil, with Siv
10 They really load their wagons
11 Beautiful fields and mountains in the rice-basket of India, near Tiruvannamalai
12 Replanting rice plants
13 They're actually overflowing that truck
14 Roadside shrine to the Tamil god Ayyanar
15 Fierce Ayyanar
16 Schoolchildren doing calisthenics
17 Yes, we have bananas -- and they're good too
18 There are lots of Christians in Tamil Nadu, even protestants
19 Indian cotton field
20 Hauling sugar cane
21 Cashew trees
22 The distinguishing charateristic of Tamil Nadu roads is pot-holes
23 A village in the shadow of a mighty banyan tree
24 A bus makes a detour (!) around a Swedish photographer
25 Cheerful village kids
26 These village children were really friendly and all wanted their pictures taken
