As part of a workshop that highlights the importance of maps in the field of New Media at the Asian College of Journalism, a bunch of students and I traveled to Thervoy kandigai recently. Thervoy, a village whose landscape is rapidly changing due to a large portion of land being acquired by SIPCOT for industrial development, is about two and a half hours away from Chennai by bus and is located in the Gummidipoondi Taluk of the Thiruvallur District.

Google Earth image showing the location of Thervoy Kandigai

The reason behind the visit was to introduce the students to the importance of providing a spatial framework when documenting sites in transition (to read about some of the issues that residents of Thervoy have voiced click here and here). Six, six minute documentaries will be made by students and presented on December 9^th to a panel of judges at ACJ as part of their coursework. The documentaries will be focused around a particular geographical space in the Thervoy region and will be geo-tagged and available on our website soon after.

Students meeting local residents from Thervoy Kandigai

A resident explaining the medicinal properties of a native plant that grows in the region of land acquired by SIPCOT.

Siddharth Hande

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