Drain swallowed dreams of a teacher
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Many may have forgotten the story of teacher Sarala (24). She was the last victim who had faced a death similar to little Mahi of Haryana just seven months ago in the city.
The family of Sarala who drowned in a stormwater drain in T Nagar is yet to get over the grievous loss. They expressed their shock when DC met them on Sunday in the aftermath of Mahi’s demise.
“He doesn’t talk to people these days. He is yet to come out of the trauma,” says Sarala’s mother Amsa (55) with tears rushing to her eyes about her husband Muniyan (58).
The mother recalled the incident with the same pain she suffered on the day when she saw her daughter in the drain. “There was such a big open drain in the busy T Nagar neighbourhood.
My daughter had fallen into the drain when she stepped down from the pavement. Water had flooded the open drain and she couldn’t distinguish it from the road in the darkness. That open drain swallowed her life and our dreams,” she said.
The little house is filled with books and notes used by Sarala who was the first graduate in the family. “She studied day and night.
She attended spoken English tuition class in T Nagar. She told me she wanted to improve her language as only then could she teach her students well. She was ambitious and refused marriage offers,” her mother explains.
Sarala’s brother Kumar and sisters Saradha and Punitha and her parents have a question to ask of the government. “How many more deaths do we have to witness to put an end to open drains and manholes?”
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