Places

Old Sattankupam Village - Pulicat Lake - Tamil Nadu

Sea shore behind Old Sattankupam Village in Pulicat Lake 

ARIAL VIEW OF THE ONE OF THE ISLANDS

ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS

HADDO JETTY THAT CONNECTS TO DIFFERENT ISLANDS.

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Old Sattankuppam Village - Pulicat Lake - Tamil Nadu

Old Sattankuppam is a deserted village. it took 20 minutes to travel by boat from Pulicat. Most buildings and thatched roof huts appear empty.  Palm trees blow in the breezes that generously come off the nearby ocean shore.  Forty families, out of four hundred, remain scattered about, refusing to leave their home compounds. There is word that the government plans to sell the village land to build an ocean side resort.  If that is true, Sattankuppam was not relocated for safety sake post tsunami; it was relocated for political and financial reasons.  This is the possible cause of the present rift in the community, although, historically, Sattankuppam has had violent clashes between opposing political parties, causing mass migration, separation, deep distrust and fragmentation of community.