Summary:
They wish to modernise their vannanchavadi with an industries-grade washing machine, but the banks won’t sanction a loan without a proper address. The Sangam has 40 families (200 individuals) as members who use the ghat facilities by rotation, depending on the clothes they bring for washing. Gangadaran, a BCom graduate looks out for others, brings food for those who start work at 5 a.m.Work goes on till 8 p.m.
Men take turns at the washing area without quarrel. Oh, this was a kuttai once, said Rajagopal, ex-president of the Thiruvanmiyur Salavaiyalar Sangam, which manages this vannanchavadi. Water now comes out of a borewell, but all the water collected in the surrounding areas was let into the kuttai during the December floods..