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on Dhanushkodi

People thought that, it was another rainy day of 1964 and done their day’s routine work and went asleep. They don’t know that they never see again either their loved ones or their golden land. Yes most of them were vanished, buried in their land instantly when the cyclone struck the harbour town Dhanuskodi and killed thousand of people instantly on the fateful day. When you look at those reaming structures of the buildings how the town was functioned in a systematic way On that fateful day a group of 500 students from Madurai city boarded on the train to Dhanuskodi. On the way some of the students got down at the near by railway station and the rest went to Dhanuskodi. But, none of them knew that they are heading to their burial ground. It is a pity that no one escaped from the train whe + more about Dhanushkodi

People thought that, it was another rainy day of 1964 and done their day’s routine work and went asleep. They don’t know that they never see again either their loved ones or their golden land. Yes most of them were vanished, buried in their land instantly when the cyclone struck the harbour town Dhanuskodi and killed thousand of people instantly on the fateful day. When you look at those reaming structures of the buildings how the town was functioned in a systematic way On that fateful day a group of 500 students from Madurai city boarded on the train to Dhanuskodi. On the way some of the students got down at the near by railway station and the rest went to Dhanuskodi. But, none of them knew that they are heading to their burial ground. It is a pity that no one escaped from the train when the storm hit the shores, the rail bridges and the track were thrown miles away and still one can see some of the remaining parts of the railway tracks near by road. It’s a tragedy that the train driver refused to move the train from the near by railway station and he sent the message to the control office (the office situated at Madurai more than 150 km away) that the weather conditions are very bad and if I proceed surely all of us trapped under the storm but the then higher officials madly ignored and refused his repeated cry and asked him to proceed with the passengers to Dhanuskodi. One can see the skeleton structure of the buildings that braved the fateful day still exists in the sand from few kilometers before Dhanuskodi. Moonram Chatiram is the last village to which one can take a regular vehicle. After Moonram Chatiram the real journey begins in fish cart vehicles, jeeps, and Maruti gypsy. Dhanushkodi is 18 km from Rameshwaram. The first six kilometers till Natarajapuram, you’ll find electricity and mobile connectivity. But after that there are no government activities or common normal life. One can understand that after the 1964 incident that the land of Dhanuskodi was unfit for human living but still there is human traffic due to the fisheries activities. - hide more about Dhanushkodi