Village life, organized entirely over water, unfolds before our eyes against a backdrop of coconut trees and rice paddies of sight. Everything goes along the banks, on the narrow strip of land between the rivers and houses. Children play in water, women are busy with household chores and men watch the back-and-fro of Houseboats, floating like great, aboard which tourists are discovering this part of South India. All resources are exploited Backwaters by its inhabitants. While women, in preparing the next rice harvest, the men fish and collect what the sea was willing to concede. The work is grueling in the sweltering heat of the plains and is thus the rhythm of the water it carried.