Dhanushkodi (Rameswaram/Pamban Dweep)
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Tamil Nadu /
Rameswaram /
Rameswaram/Pamban Dweep
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World / Sri Lanka / Mannar
place with historical importance, ghost town
This town had gone down under the sea in 1964 in Cyclone.
Cruel memories of a devastating cyclone are still haunting the people of the Dhanushkodi island in Tamil Nadu, which was once flourishing port town, which was ruined on the night of December 24, 1964. Dhanushkodi was a religious place, where thousands of people used to come through a railway bridge, connecting to the mainland of India. The December cyclone, which lasted 25 hours, had sank the bridge into the sea, flattened buildings and washed away a passenger train killing over 1800 people, almost the entire population of the tiny town.
The hamlet has since then been inching back to normalcy but neglect by provincial authorities have left it much like a ruin of broken temples and homes with the locals left with but faint memories of its erstwhile glory.
For the few survivors, most of who are now ageing, a reminiscence of the aftermath still recoils then in horror and the ghastly image of bodies lying strewn all over.
"We never realised that it was a cyclone, we thought it as a high tide as usual. It was raining heavily on that day and suddenly everything started flying in the strong wind. All of us ran for our life," said Neechal Kalli, a survivor, now 78 years old.
In Indian mythology, "Dhanushkodi" derives its name from the Sanskrit 'dhanus', meaning bow, and Tamil 'kodi' meaning tip of the bow. It is the same holly bridge which had built by Lord RAMA with the help of vanara warrriors, constructed to reach the ancient Lanka, where his wife Sita was imprisoned by the demon king Ravana.
Dhanushkodi was opened as a port on March 1, 1914 when the India-Sri Lankan connection on this route was accomplished with the construction of a bridge. The port was a gateway to Sri Lanka.
Cruel memories of a devastating cyclone are still haunting the people of the Dhanushkodi island in Tamil Nadu, which was once flourishing port town, which was ruined on the night of December 24, 1964. Dhanushkodi was a religious place, where thousands of people used to come through a railway bridge, connecting to the mainland of India. The December cyclone, which lasted 25 hours, had sank the bridge into the sea, flattened buildings and washed away a passenger train killing over 1800 people, almost the entire population of the tiny town.
The hamlet has since then been inching back to normalcy but neglect by provincial authorities have left it much like a ruin of broken temples and homes with the locals left with but faint memories of its erstwhile glory.
For the few survivors, most of who are now ageing, a reminiscence of the aftermath still recoils then in horror and the ghastly image of bodies lying strewn all over.
"We never realised that it was a cyclone, we thought it as a high tide as usual. It was raining heavily on that day and suddenly everything started flying in the strong wind. All of us ran for our life," said Neechal Kalli, a survivor, now 78 years old.
In Indian mythology, "Dhanushkodi" derives its name from the Sanskrit 'dhanus', meaning bow, and Tamil 'kodi' meaning tip of the bow. It is the same holly bridge which had built by Lord RAMA with the help of vanara warrriors, constructed to reach the ancient Lanka, where his wife Sita was imprisoned by the demon king Ravana.
Dhanushkodi was opened as a port on March 1, 1914 when the India-Sri Lankan connection on this route was accomplished with the construction of a bridge. The port was a gateway to Sri Lanka.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhanushkodi
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Coordinates: 9°10'46"N 79°24'52"E
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