River Meenachil

The river is immortalised through the booker prize won, Arundhathi Roy's 'God of Small Things'. Almost all malayali's heard about this river...I was born and brought up in a village in Kottayam District...My 'tharavadu' is near to this river...we take bath in this river...i have lot of cousins...we studied in one school...very closely attached to each other...we went to school together, at lunch time we came to home('tharvadu') and eat together...after the class we again came to this home and played together...very sweet memories...now also we r going together to take bath in this river....on rainy season it is very difficult to take bath....river is full of muddy water....we can't predict the depth of the river at that time....after my fourth standard we leave Kottayam and settled in Trivandrum...One morning(the day we want to come back to TVM), as usual we went to take bath with my mother...that was a rainy season....during rainy season, everyone did is that take water from the river in a bucket and take bath..i know about this..but i want to jump into the river since that was the last day in KTM..i asked to my mother...she agreed just to go one step and take bath..i suddenly jumped in to the river...but i didn't get any place to stand since it is full of mud and leaves during rainy season..i drowned in water...my mother and cousins feared...my mother also jumped in to the river...as she is a gud swimmer she take me from the water and kept me in riverside...anyway thank to God...thank to my mother also...