Chaliya Kunhambu, 64, is standing on a road, 30 km away from Kasargod, the district’s headquarters. If he could connect all the surangas he has dug in 50 years, he would reach Kasargod walking underground all the way!
Kunhambu has dug not less than 1,000 surangas. With an average length of 60 kolu (a kolu is 2.5 feet), he has dug 45 km.
Imagine digging a cave in hard laterite soil, that too for 45 km. It’s a record unlikely to be broken — because India. . .
