The waters of forgetfulness
Updated On: 04 August, 2024 06:53 AM IST | Mumbai | Paromita Vohra
The ruling party was quick to call this a Communist-government made disaster, as if it is not a disaster that we all live within
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Illustration/Uday Mohite
The rain was India’s language of abundance. The monsoon meant romance, fertility, relief from the heat, a new beginning, the promise of plenitude for the desiring body with its many hungers. Meghadootam to barahmasis, thumris and film songs—the rain gives us metaphors and memories affirming that we are Nature’s subjects.
“Water has memory. It remembers the path it used to once flow along” said Dr K Soman, to The News Minute, while analysing the Wayanad landslide which has left over 300 dead. The landslide itself had natural causes, explained the geologist. But its devastation was human-made—starting with British tea plantations that levelled natural gullies through which water once flowed, followed by unmoderated development in an area with a history of landslide, which made it unfit for human habitation.
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