Success Story: French TV Channel, France 5 's Travel Magazine, Echappées Belles

From the role of a freelance writer to the role of introducing my hometown, Kochi  in Kerala, India to Raphael de Casabianca, the anchor of the well-known Travel Magazine, Echappées Belles  (Beautiful Escapes), France 5 (French TV channel), my career is probably taking a new twist.  (First telecast was on Feb 15, 2014 and re-telecast on Feb 23, 2014)

Watch the Kerala show - Travel magazine Echappées Belles" (Beautiful Escapes) on France 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoTemD_55RI or
http://conscience.33.free.fr/tv_sante.html#kerala.

(I appear in the 1:33 hour long show at 56 minutes, disappear at 1:02 minutes and reappear 1:17 minutes and remain till the end of the show.)
What's more interesting is the fact, the shoot for the France 5 Travel show began on January 13, the same day I had started my freelance writing career. The shoot lasted for 2.5 days, capturing the beauty of Cochin, The Queen of the Arabian Sea.

I hope you enjoy the show and my role in introducing Kochi to the anchor. 

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