MEPPADI: Aside from Velayudhan PT (62), no different particular person would have visited all the homes of the now-lost village of Mundakkai in Kerala’s Wayanad. The sexagenarian — who has three years of service left — visited the village on Tuesday for the primary time after the tragedy to seek out no hint of the publish workplace he had been working at for greater than three many years.
Hailing from Pattambi in Kerala’s Palakkad district, Velayudhan got here to Mundakkai on the age of 29 after being instated because the postman within the village, that now bears no hint of the homes he would ship letters to or the slim streets and walkways he would traverse.
“The publish workplace is gone; there aren’t any homes left for me to ship letters, besides just a few that lie deserted. Possibilities of the publish workplace being re-established are slim. Furthermore, we can not say now the place the brand new promised township to rehabilitate the victims might be arrange,” mentioned Velayudhan.
Velayudhan mentioned his life had turn into intertwined with these of the villagers.
“After coming right here, I grew to become one in every of them and settled down at Chooralmala, the place I constructed a home 13 years in the past. We shared shut bonds with the villagers and plenty of of them would go to our home throughout festivals and invite us to theirs. It was heart-wrenching to study that the individuals with whom we carefully interacted for many years have died in lots,” he mentioned.
Velayudhan mentioned he had not visited Mundakkai up to now six days as he wouldn’t have been capable of bear the sight. “There aren’t many issues left standing. I, too, am on an equal footing as the home which I had constructed after years of toil is gone with no hint, although our lives have been spared,” he mentioned.
The household had a slim escape as they managed to expire of their home seeing the rubble circulation ripping by way of the neighbourhood.
Hailing from Pattambi in Kerala’s Palakkad district, Velayudhan got here to Mundakkai on the age of 29 after being instated because the postman within the village, that now bears no hint of the homes he would ship letters to or the slim streets and walkways he would traverse.
“The publish workplace is gone; there aren’t any homes left for me to ship letters, besides just a few that lie deserted. Possibilities of the publish workplace being re-established are slim. Furthermore, we can not say now the place the brand new promised township to rehabilitate the victims might be arrange,” mentioned Velayudhan.
Velayudhan mentioned his life had turn into intertwined with these of the villagers.
“After coming right here, I grew to become one in every of them and settled down at Chooralmala, the place I constructed a home 13 years in the past. We shared shut bonds with the villagers and plenty of of them would go to our home throughout festivals and invite us to theirs. It was heart-wrenching to study that the individuals with whom we carefully interacted for many years have died in lots,” he mentioned.
Velayudhan mentioned he had not visited Mundakkai up to now six days as he wouldn’t have been capable of bear the sight. “There aren’t many issues left standing. I, too, am on an equal footing as the home which I had constructed after years of toil is gone with no hint, although our lives have been spared,” he mentioned.
The household had a slim escape as they managed to expire of their home seeing the rubble circulation ripping by way of the neighbourhood.
