It is Ponnaiyar
Flowing to the Bay Bengal
and carries all dire rumour
Make everything fine and fertile!
This is our sprawling land
Our father painted on it with their soul and blood,
There was a time,
When their crop field remain pour.....
without our slog.....
Over the years .......
Many water flows through Ponnaiyar......
Now they don’t called us
to transplant their paddy ..
Now they don’t called us
to harvest their paddy....
Now they don’t called us
to harvest their Sugarcane......
Now they love their machine,
Over the years ....
Many water flows through Ponnaiyar.......
My mother once asked ‘who develop machine?’
I replied, ‘Scientist ‘..........
She said ‘they are selfish’.............
Over the years
Many water flows through Ponnaiyar..........
Now we travel around,
and hunt for living..............
Ponnaiyar still flowing to the Bay of Bengal
and caries the memo of our grief and struggle.....
In memories of Adibasi people of Uchimedu village of Pondicherry. In my visit to the area in last week got an opportunity to visit the village and talk to different Adibasi families, Jagon a local Adibasi youth who help me in the interaction. It is very difficult to forget people’s struggle and their fight to achieve dignity.
Ponnaiyar is a river of Southern India, started from of Nandidurg hill of Karnataka and flows to Bay of Bengal.