This story is about the underground river in Tagore Nagar in Pondicherry. Many many years ago, when Kanna mama's borewell was being dug, at a certain depth (about 30 ft), there was white sand. And then within a couple of feet more there was water :).
Amma told me that she'd heard of an underground river used to flow in then Rose Nagar( old name for Tagore Nagar).
This incident fascinated me and in the absence of the Internet, my main source of search was the book of knowledge. I got interested in the Saraswathi river. There is evidence that the Rig Veda was written in the banks in the Saraswathi.
There's so much history in every piece of land. It is just so amazing that Pondicherry has so much of it. Agastya's ashram, the Vedapuri temple and then more recently the Aurobindo ashram. I wish we Indians had the ability to document things. Even now,we are such lazy creatures. I hope the underground river inside me to write starts flowing again. So much has happened since that time when I was a kid. I am a middle aged man now!
I hope we haven't bored out all the water from the underground river in Tagore Nagar.
