Perumbavoor: The bustling town of Perumbavoor stands around 40 kilometres from Kochi, and is best known for its plywood industry. Besides the agrarian income, its economy largely depends on the 1500 units that process the abundantly available rubber wood, employing more than 2 lakh people. When you turn into the Iringole Canal Road at the busy Vattolipaddy junction, you are greeted by a scenic silence: typical of Kerala’s rural monsoon landscape: the crowns of the tall dark trees lace the rain-lulled sky, the frolicking green undergrowth and the gentle swirl of the waters in the narrow irrigation canal that run alongside the road. However, it all seems speciously calm as if to mask the horror that occurred here over a month ago. On either side, middle-class homes sit concreted in their modest successes. Families have been rooted here for decades and some even claim for centuries- as old as the Iravichira Siva temple itself. And the peaceful neighbourhood has never reported a...