Onam Eve at Aranmula
The date sheet calendar at Anila teacher's house on the street next to Aaranmula Pathasarathy temple shows 15th august 2018. That was the day the River Pampa breached the banks and the floods drowned the possessions of the rich and the poor alike. A couple of hours before the overflowing dam's shutters were opened up, the army picked people up on rescue boats and transported them to the first floor of the municipal school and to other safe locations. Soon the water levels would breach the first floor of the school building as well the police and everyone would flee to the terrace waiting for choppers to rescue them. Their houses were submerged. Apparently from atop the helicopters, even the massive Aramula temple was submerged Their houses, humble as well as the not so humble were nowhere to be seen. In it were passports,progress reports, marksheets, title deeds , school homework, wedding albums. Winter clothes. mattresses an...