Mull(a/ai)periyar dam is a Damocles's sword dangling devilishly over Keralites- distraught by the unabated apprehensions of an imminent catastrophe.The engineering Goliath,an antique marvel but decrepit, designed to
carry a life span of 60 years funnily bounded to a dictum of 999 years to serve (not to bite the recipient but to drub the donor)-has presented sleepless nights to the 35 lacks petty mortals in the downside.
On the leeward side of the western ghats ,the lifeline of the Tamils in 4 rain shadow districts ,its fabulous verdure ,2.2 lack acres of lusty lush green catapulting in to a ghastly sprawling barren and dissolute strip,a vast desert-an unimaginable spectacle for its toiling masses.
The word Mullapperiyar brings back in the minds of acknowledgeable people , the horrendous spectacle of Morphi of the late 70's- fetid corpses piled up-stinking carrion on top of buildings ,suggesting the height of water walls gushed in, -the men trapped to death in a temple,the pictures of Gods remaining intact-immensely sordid and nauseating-of a forlorn city busily engaged in cleansing by the RSS men.
Six decades back,while consecrating Brakranangal to the nation ,Prime Minister Nehru said "Dams shall be our temples".But his soul will be trembling when he beholds the laments of his country men in the downstreams of the towering Dam.
Mullapperiyar is a symbol.A symbol of the sombre Indian polity,the vacuity of federal coexistence.It exposes the nonchalance of the enlightened elites on the face of a demanding disaster.It also spews the sermon often quoted by our zealot politicians that 'Science should not be questioned "when they tailor the people to believe that, the violent rush of water would flow in a line demarcated by them, with mathematical precision.
The dam is dying inch by inch. (Continued to page 2)
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ReplyDeleteYou put it in style..though i felt some words DAM-SIZE ie undigestable to me as BIGDAMS. a second dam at downstream is never a solution.
the story you quoted simply tells what is in the offing.
chandran kallath
the pact itself is most unjust,unequal,humiliating,onesided,and ridiculously longterm imperialistic.
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