Edassery Govindan Nair, another great literary figure, tries to gaze into the future of the river in his famous poem Kuttippuram Palam (Kuttippuram Bridge). And like a river, their words carried novel ideas across terrains to mould the Kerala that we know of now. The irrepressible Vaikom Mohammed Basheer has written about the floods that used to visit the Moovattupuzha river twice a year in Ormayude Arakal. Bhanu identifies herself with the river and, like ‘her’, she too falls prey to the avarice of man. But Vyloppilly reassures us of a new beginning, in Chettupuzha: Let all putridity go down the swamps; and the river run towards perfection...

Source: The Hindu September 27, 2018 10:44 UTC