Dhanushkoti April 2008 (I)

Ram, local people swear, ground his dhanush (bow) in the sands after returning victorious from Lanka. And so the name Dhanushkoti.

A stone wall commemerating silver jubily of new era Dhanushkoti in 1950's which was washed away in 1964.
A Sanyasi distributing sweet water from a well.

Remains of the railway water tank

A church in ruins, a battered post office and remnants of a few buildings amid little sand dunes stand as grim reminder of the 1964 cyclone — or was it another tsunami? — that devastated Dhanushkoti, including its quaint rail link to Rameshwaram.