Tuticorin: The vast emptiness of Pervades Meenakshipuram in the Tuticorin District, typical of several barren villages from which people migrate Mass due to loss of livelihoods and difficult life conditions.
However, the sons of Diehard from the ground like the riser riser refused to leave what might happen.
Today, the 70-year-old child is the only occupant of this village in Sekkarkudi Pancayat, 35 km from Tuticorin, who faced threats removed from the map.
Time is when MeenajaHipuram is used to have with agricultural activities.
According to the 2001 census, there were 1,269 people who lived there, but many began to leave when the rain failed the area consistently.
People have to travel five kilometers to collect water while the lack of public transportation makes them walk miles to take the bus.
Kandasamy said there were five families in the village until 2015 when they were too left.
The Septuagenarian has lived alone in his dilapidated home since his wife died five years ago.
His two sons and his daughter wanted him to come and stay with them, but the royalty insisted that he would die on his own land.
Place of rope bed, mixie, large drum water, television and aruval is the only item.
The Rekla basket, which he used for racing in Sekkarkudi, a village famous for the Bullock train race, rested in his backyard.
A cat and a dog make it remain a company.
“My father and grandfather were born here and I will also die like them,” he said.
Hard wind howling through the village, which is a rally the attribute with the absence of green and trees.
There is an overhead tank and road tap with a hand pump in the village but the water comes only once in ten days.
The kandasamy feels the village will live have the government giving them the right water facilities.
The road has not been placed for decades and is full of holes.
The neighboring villages are three to four kilometers away where agricultural activities are still ongoing.
Railride has two wheels to take food from neighbor Secretaria with RS 2,000 of his son Bala gave him every month.
He bought his quota from Sekkarkudi and was an ordinary voter who chose in the election recently traveled by traveling to Chokkalingapuram, within 3 km.
The village lived during the fecival of Adhiparasakthi temple in May when people came and put up tents, but they returned the next day.
There was a ray in the eyes of the Kandasamy signaling optimism that this village would come back to life and people would return.