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Dead Not Anonymous
  • 30 July 2024, Wayanad
  • 229 Lives Lost
  • 78 Missing
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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

Draft list released by the government on August 29, 2024

  1. Chinna Murali Bhavan Chooralmala
  2. Muhammed Nasin Kaipulliveedu, Chooralmala
  3. Aradhya M Vilangupara House, Chooralmala
  4. Mahesh Vilangupara House, Chooralmala
  5. Beeran Erakkadan, Chooralmala
  6. Haridas Meleparakkatthodi House, Chooralmala
  7. Narendran Perumballi, Chooralmala
  8. Leelamma Thekkilakaattil, Chooralmala
  9. Maimoona Pulikkaparambil, Chooralmala
  10. Rajan Vipin Nivas, Chooralmala
  11. Sarath Babu Sr Estate, Chooralmala
  12. Naja Fathima V P Valiyapeediyekkal, Chooralmala
  13. Rukhiya Valiyapeediyekkal, Chooralmala
  14. Rahmath Thattarakadan
  15. Selma Kakkathode, Chooralmala
  16. Ahanya P K Parakkalam, Chooralmala
  17. Hajara Mudaheri House, Mundakkai
  18. Subeer Mudaheri House, Mundakkai
  19. Adham Zayan Karadipeedikayil House, Mundakkai
  20. Hafeeda Chettiyaarthodi, Chooralmala
  21. Pathuma Kulathil House, Mundakkai
  22. Ummu Kulsu Kalathil House, Mundakkai
  23. Amjith Kakkathode, Mundakkai
  24. Sana Mariyam Padikkal Parambil, Mundakkai
  25. Muhammed Rayan Punchirimattom, Mundakkai
  26. Dheena Lamya Punchirimattom, Mundakkai
  27. Sherif Alakkal, Mundakkai
  28. Girijith Mundakkai
  29. Kathija Alakkal House, Mundakkai
  30. Muhammed Rasal P Paanakkadan, Chooralmala
  31. Muhammad Sahal Paanakkadan, Chooralmala
  32. Faiza Paanakkadan, Chooralmala
  33. Lekshmi Madathil House, Mundakkai
  34. Ramaswami Punchirimattom, Mundakkai
  35. Vishnu Palakoode, Mundakkai
  36. Saritha S Saraj Bhavan, Chooralmala
  37. Rasheetha Puthuparmbil, Mundakkai
  38. Abdu Rahiman Mundasheri House, Mundakkai
  39. Andriya Punchirimattom, Mundakkai
  40. Abdul Nazar Padkkaparambil, Mundakkai
  41. Ayisha Pookattil, Chooralmala Town
  42. Sheeba K T Krishna Nivas, Chooralmala
  43. Muhammed Kooyliyodan, Punchimattom, Mundakkai
  44. Ajitha Krishna Nivas, Chooralmala
  45. Basheer Poothankodan House, Mundakkai
  46. Salman Farish Poothankodan House, Mundakkai
  47. Salu Shamin Poothankodan House, Mundakkai
  48. Hamsa K Kunnanath House, Mundakkai
  49. Jumailath Kunnanath House, Mundakkai
  50. Hasin Muhammed Kunnanath House, Mundakkai
  51. Pathumma W/O Hamsa Padikkaparambil, Chooralmala, Vellarmala
  52. Saraswathi Vijitha Nivas, Chooralmala
  53. Dasan Vijitha Nivas, Chooralmala
  54. Ravendran Pookode House, Mundakkai
  55. Usha Pookode House, Mundakkai
  56. Muhammed Amin Kooyliyodan, Punchimattom, Mundakkai
  57. Murugan K Thalaappil, Chooralmala
  58. Rinsha Fathima E T Edathode, Chooralmala
  59. Sajina Kalthingal, Mundakkai
  60. Hijas Roshan S/O Muneer, Rameswaram, Chooralmala
  61. Ivan Dish Krishna Nivas, Vellarmala, Chooralmala
  62. Fathima Yousaf Moothethodi (H), Lakkidi, Vythiri
  63. Pradheeba Paarakulam
  64. Renjith Kumar Bagwanpur, Vaishali, Bihar
  65. Vignesh Paswan Rampur Chaklala, Jandhaha, Bihar
  66. Dr. Swadheen Panda Anima Nursing Home, Ganesh Bazar, Jajpur Rd, Jajpur, Odisha
  67. Amal Nishan S/O Muneer, Kakkathoole (H), Chooralmala
  68. Thankamma W/O Kaliyappan, Thalappil (H), GVHSS Rd, Chooralmala
  69. Shameer S/O Avarankutty, Kulathil (H)
  70. Sharon S/O Gireeshan
  71. Yoosaf S/O Abdulla Padikkaparambil
  72. Nusrath Bhasha S/O Anvar Bhasha, Kaipulli (H), Mundakkai Estate Padi
  73. Jinu Rajan S/O Rajan, Punchirimattom, Mundakkai
  74. Shakunthala S/O Baskaran P K, Krishna Nivas, Chooralmala
  75. Prakashan D/O Prakashan, NS Colony, Puthumala
  76. Bathma D/O Prakashan, NS Colony, Puthumala
  77. Rangaswami Punchirimattom, Mundakkai
  78. Pathumma W/O Abdurahman, Madampara House, Vellarmala, Chooralmala