A winning Snake boat waits out the pandemic
The Hindu
Thomas Daniel’s affection for his family boat, a Nehru Trophy winner, inspires a 1000 pages scrap book that records, in photographs and news, the life and times of Kerala’s boat races since 1975
“I get nostalgic when I see the Chundan. I talk to him: ‘Dear Kallooparamban, how are you? Do you miss the backwaters? Don’t worry, you will soon be back,’”says Thomas Daniel, aka Thoma. He is talking about the Kallooparamban Chundan, the family’s snake boat, famous for winning the Nehru Trophy Boat Race for four consecutive years in the 70s. Now, lying retired at a boatyard in Ayemanam, Kottayam for several years, it is the reason behind Thoma’s deep longing for the resumption of Vallamkali or Kerala’s boat races halted due to the pandemic. This same love led him to collect photographs, news reports and articles about the various boat races since 1980s in a scrapbook of 1000 broadsheets.
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