The river Nila (bharathapuzha) and the village are closely related to each other. From the olden time itself the village depends the river in many ways, mainly for irrigating the agriculture on the river bank. There is traditional kadavu (a place where people get small rural boat thoni) called Koottakadavu.
Koottakadavu is the joining place of the two rivers Nila and Thootha. Bharathapuzha originates in the Aana malai hills in the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, and flows westward through Palakkad, Thrissur and Malappuram districts of Kerala, with many tributaries joining it, including the Tirur River. For the first 40 km or so, the Bharathapuzha follows an almost northerly course till Pollachi. At Parli both Kannadipuzha and Kalpathipuza merge and flow as Bharathapuzha and follows a westerly course until it empties into the Arabian Sea at Ponnani.
M.T Vasudevan Nair, the famous short story- writer and Novelist writes in KADAVU magazine published from Kudallur: ‘kadavu is pacca symbolic. The village goes to the outer world, and the outer world comes to the village through the kadavu.’
Koottakadavu is the joining place of the two rivers Nila and Thootha. Bharathapuzha originates in the Aana malai hills in the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, and flows westward through Palakkad, Thrissur and Malappuram districts of Kerala, with many tributaries joining it, including the Tirur River. For the first 40 km or so, the Bharathapuzha follows an almost northerly course till Pollachi. At Parli both Kannadipuzha and Kalpathipuza merge and flow as Bharathapuzha and follows a westerly course until it empties into the Arabian Sea at Ponnani.
M.T Vasudevan Nair, the famous short story- writer and Novelist writes in KADAVU magazine published from Kudallur: ‘kadavu is pacca symbolic. The village goes to the outer world, and the outer world comes to the village through the kadavu.’
