Deluge Diaries

September 26, 2019

Deluge Diaries | Year after floods, Ranni is a dazzling ghost town

A pleasant surprise awaits anyone visiting Ranni town a year after the floods. The place looks magically transformed, as though touched by some life-giving boon.

August 15, 2019
Photo finish: An ailing child, a sinking bridge and a superman

Four-year-old Sooraj, the child who was taken to hospital by NDRF personnel Kanhaiya Kumar over a raging Cheruthoni river during last year's floods, lives right above the iconic bridge.
August 12, 2019
'Superman' Kanhaiya Kumar is back in Kerala, this time in flood-hit Wayanad

Kanhaiya has come back to Kerala. He is currently stationed at the landslide-hit Wayanad.
August 09, 2019
Who are the flood rehab beneficiaries? Surely, not homeless Karuppan and Rajanna in Idukki

The homeless couple has been living in a school after landslide destroyed their house in August last year
August 08, 2019
Dream house gone, they live in a godown now

What happened at Panniyarkutty was so momentous that no one initially knew what happened to the lonely house less than 200 metres ahead of the town, along the Ponmudi dam top road.
August 07, 2019
They escaped landslide, but left landless

Saji and Sanitha had miraculously escaped a landslide in the 2018 rain and since then they have been struggling to get out of the trauma.
August 07, 2019
Year after Kerala floods, they are refugees in their own land

Onmanorama re-visited the same set of people we had come across last year in some of the most devastated spots in the district. Their reality has altered so much that old tools of survival are simply not enough.

Deluge Diaries

Deluge Diaries | Year after floods, Ranni is a dazzling ghost town

Photo finish: An ailing child, a sinking bridge and a superman

'Superman' Kanhaiya Kumar is back in Kerala, this time in flood-hit Wayanad

Who are the flood rehab beneficiaries? Surely, not homeless Karuppan and Rajanna in Idukki

Dream house gone, they live in a godown now

They escaped landslide, but left landless

Year after Kerala floods, they are refugees in their own land

Year after floods, same status: Homeless and landless

With an ode to Kerala floods, 'Chai Met Toast' says good morning to Malayalam

Orphaned by floods: Home village Makkimala is a monster for 3 young landslide survivors