Humans of Ootkal #5
I remember the floods of 1955, especially the night the water had entered the mud houses in our village causing them to crumble. The cattle were howling while the people cried at the destruction all around. There were no rescue teams but the villagers kept telling each other that ‘Raju Babu would come in the morning and save us’.
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