climbing-palm

Defying Gravity

By: Sasidhar

Jun 19 2009

Category: Daily Photo, Sasidhar

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A villager climbs up a palm tree more than 5 storeys tall to collect Toddy (also known as Palm Wine). His livelihood depends on him doing this twice a day. Fresh toddy is non-alcoholic, and tastes much like coconut water. Most prefer the fermented version though (:

Photo taken on the outskirts of Warangal, Andhra Pradesh.

5 Responses to “Defying Gravity”

  1. 19 Jun 2009 at 11:52 am Pranav Shah

    i had a similar one! but this one is better… so good you posted this before me.

  2. 19 Jun 2009 at 3:16 pm Narendra

    Evidence of people taking risk for their hunger

  3. 19 Jun 2009 at 8:46 pm FV

    Absolutely beautiful!

  4. 20 Jun 2009 at 1:56 pm Simply Ridiculous

    Wow!!

  5. 22 Jun 2009 at 11:17 pm Aakanksha

    Love your captions man! :)

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