On encroachment to wetlands and Buffalo dams…
by
Manoharadas Manobavan
From Sinnauppodai
They built the Puthupalam[1] across the lagoon near Lake Road…
And a Buffalo dam[2] was born
They killed a lagoon…
The lagoon cried when the Tsunami waves struck
for it was powerless
to safe guard the people living along
its fringes…
The Tsunami never likes Buffalo dams, for they block its
free ways…
People encroached into the natural water sheds of Sinnauppodai and peripheries…
We had floods in December and droughts in June…
We were suffering…
Then the Tsunami visited us in Sinnauppodai
as it has been doing for eons past…
It expected that Sinnauppodai will welcome it…
by expanding and accommodating the flood surge…
Sinnauppodai in December 2004 had lost its self control… or autonomy…
Man had made it lifeless…
Tsunami raged over the land surface…
as it tried to look for Sinnauppodai
and its channels
it destroyed the blockages and cleared the way for Sinnauppodai…
On 27th December 2004…
People started building a new road across Sinnauppodai
blocking it and creating another Buffalo dam…
Tsunami never likes buffalo dams!
So beware, when the Tsunami visits us again
it is going to be angrier than ever!
[1] The ‘New bridge’, near the Lake Road in Batticaloa
[2] Buffalo dams: a technique used by local farmers to steal water from irrigation channels. They make their buffalo sit in a channel and block it so that the irrigation water is stopped from entering into their neighboring fields.
by
Manoharadas Manobavan
From Sinnauppodai
They built the Puthupalam[1] across the lagoon near Lake Road…
And a Buffalo dam[2] was born
They killed a lagoon…
The lagoon cried when the Tsunami waves struck
for it was powerless
to safe guard the people living along
its fringes…
The Tsunami never likes Buffalo dams, for they block its
free ways…
People encroached into the natural water sheds of Sinnauppodai and peripheries…
We had floods in December and droughts in June…
We were suffering…
Then the Tsunami visited us in Sinnauppodai
as it has been doing for eons past…
It expected that Sinnauppodai will welcome it…
by expanding and accommodating the flood surge…
Sinnauppodai in December 2004 had lost its self control… or autonomy…
Man had made it lifeless…
Tsunami raged over the land surface…
as it tried to look for Sinnauppodai
and its channels
it destroyed the blockages and cleared the way for Sinnauppodai…
On 27th December 2004…
People started building a new road across Sinnauppodai
blocking it and creating another Buffalo dam…
Tsunami never likes buffalo dams!
So beware, when the Tsunami visits us again
it is going to be angrier than ever!
[1] The ‘New bridge’, near the Lake Road in Batticaloa
[2] Buffalo dams: a technique used by local farmers to steal water from irrigation channels. They make their buffalo sit in a channel and block it so that the irrigation water is stopped from entering into their neighboring fields.
