The speaker talks about how water can be a source of retributive justice. The speaker declares that water is not a simple thing; it can give life but can also devour lives. She then declares in a vengeful tone that the water that could not serve to quench the thirst of the parched throats (of Dalits) became the ** tsunami wave and swallowed the whole village after village.
The speaker declares that ‘water’ is so powerful that it treats the ‘poor’ as its playthings. Sometimes, many villages suffer from drought and become dry deserts *** poor people. It may also come in the form of floods and drown them. Thus, the poet depicts the destructive nature of water.
Water is the elixir of life and without water, no life can exist on this earth. Naturally, water is a life-giver. When a panchama goes to a village tank and is made to wait for a *** of water all day long, one can imagine the misery and the hardships the Dalits have to suffer when they are denied a rightful share of water.
Like the panchama, the Wada girl is also made to face humiliation by being forced to collect the water dropped from above and getting drenched in the process. One has to imagine their need for water and the way it is given to them.
Similarly, water functions like a life-giver when we get to know that the Dalits face quite a few days without water even to quench their thirst. The speaker narrates one incident where water would have been a life-giver. In Malapalle, several thatched huts would have been saved if only there was one of water to douse the *.
