116 yrs, dam row later, TN hero ‘Pennycuick’

Amid the Mullaperiyar dam row, a star is on the rise. A PWD office in Madurai is named after him, his statues adorn the district, his photos hang in shops, his birthday is observed by some, and last week, a booklet on him was released by the Madurai district collector. But now that Kerala and Tamil Nadu are fighting over a dam he built against many odds, a bigger honour is set to come English engineer Colonel John Pennycuick’s way.

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