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Dead Not Anonymous
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Many devoured by the massive landslide in Mundakkai and Chooralmala in Kerala’s Wayanad district are now just body parts — a torso, a limb, a palm, a finger — with nothing but a DNA code to identify them.  Some of the bodies have been crushed and disfigured beyond recognition. They have gone to their graves unrecognised, unmourned by their loved ones. The only things known about them are a DNA code and the place from which they were found. Hopefully, the DNA codes would soon find matches among the broken and clueless living.  There are yet others, hundreds of them, without even a DNA code, the ones who seem lost forever, buried under tonnes of debris or thrown into the depths of savagely flowing rivers and lakes.

  If it was the disaster's job to mutilate, bury and make disappear, ours as survivors is to reclaim — to give our loved ones a face, a smile, an age, a name, a history.  Here, by creating this memorial, Onmanorama is attempting to do just that. At the moment, only a few are known. Soon, like the wedding ring on the severed finger of a newly-wed had caused her father to hold it in his palms, the DNA codes kept along with the bodies in the community graves will set off a wave of recognition. More bodies will also be unearthed. And till everyone lost in the greatest tragedy that has befallen Kerala is finally given a face and a name, we will keep updating this space.  They are not to be remembered as body parts strewn around the Wayanad landscape like broken branches but as dignified and gifted humans who had loved and were in turn intensely loved.

Memories not buried by boulders

Missing

The Kerala government declared all 32 missing dead on February 10, 2025.

  1. Ramaswami (70) Palamarathil House Punchirimattam Mundakkai
  2. Girijith (22) Kallingal House Punchirimattam Mundakkai
  3. Narendran (67) Perumbulli House Chooralmala
  4. Sana Mariyam (9) Padikkaparambil House Mundakai Town
  5. Salman Faris (21) Poothankodan House Mundakkai
  6. Khadeeja (64) Alakkal House Mundakkai
  7. Muhammed Rayan (6) Cheripparamban House Punchirimattam Mundakkai
  8. Hamsa K (54) Kunnanath House Mundakkai
  9. Shareef (46) Alakkal House Mundakkai
  10. Muhammed Ameen (11) Kooliyodan House Punchirimattam Mundakkai
  11. Pathumma (80) Pottammal House Chooralmala Town
  12. Jinu (28) Punchirimattam Mundakkai
  13. Padmavathi (45) Mundakkai Estate Quarters Puthumala
  14. Hajara Subair (44) Mundasseri House Mundakkai
  15. Adam Sayan (14 days) Karalilpeedikayil House Thrikkaippatta Meppadi
  16. Muhammed Razal P (9) Panakkadan House Chooralmala
  17. Thankamma (80) Thalappil House Chooralmala
  18. Leelamma (58) Thekkilakkattil House Chooralmala
  19. Chinna (77) Mele Parakkattuthodi House Harinilayam Chooralmala
  20. Sharon (30) Moolakudathil House Mundakkai
  21. Shakundala (59) Krishna Nivas Chooralmala
  22. Ajitha (46) Krishna Nivas Chooralmala
  23. Ivan Deeksh (3) Krishna Nivas Chooralmala
  24. Ranjith Kumar (22) Vaishali Bihar
  25. Vijaneshiya Paswan (46) Vaishali Bihar
  26. Aradhya (7) Vilangupara House Chooralmala
  27. Dr Swadheen Pande (32) Jajapur Odisha
  28. Ayisha (57) Pookattil House Chooralmala
  29. Hafla Fathima (12) Chetyathodi Chooralmala
  30. Abu (66) Nadarakkadan House Chooralmala Vellarmala
  31. Firos (30) Puthuparambil House Mundakkai Chooralmala Vellarmala
  32. Suhaina (24) Charalipeedikayil Thrikkaipatta Mukkamkunnu