A teary-eyed Muniswami remembers his son Sharath Kumar leaving the house at 6 am last Sunday. “He gave his mother Rs 2,000 and told her to buy mutton. I thought he was heading to work but did not know he was going to the waterfalls. Now, he will never come back,” said Muniswami, 45, still coming to terms with the loss of Sharath, who was swept away after falling into Arishinagundi waterfalls in Karnataka’s Udupi district while recording Instagram reels on July 23.
Sharath, 23, a BCom graduate and resident of Sunnada Halli post in Bhadravathi taluk of Shivamogga district, had come down to Arishinagun