Madikeri: Cleaved hillocks, collapsed boulders, heaps of mud with no semblance of a road that existed, strewn coffee plants, remnants of collapsed houses… This is the cruel sight in and around Makkandur village devastated by the recent rain, floods and landslides.
Makkandur earlier was a picturesque place with plenty of greenery amid plantations of coffee and other crops. Now the inhabitants of the devastated village have been forced to migrate to other places. The village was inhabited mostly by farm labourers who had managed to build small houses for them which have been totally destroyed.
