Why Kolkata should be a celebration of the Hooghly but isn’t
The iconic river, immortalised in cinema, songs and art, hardly has a happy relationship with the city. Visible for barely…
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Rivers are our home (but) what will the waters remember – plastic?
“The Mithi,” wrote the legendary poet Eunice D’souza, “will carry you on a raft of garbage to a dying sea.”…
‘Save the Yamuna floodplains from government-sponsored encroachment’
The Yamuna is being choked, artificial grass is being watered with ground water, ornamental plants and bamboo trees planted, the…
‘Give the river back its space. Give it a new spatial
role in a city’
São Paulo and Mumbai are similar in that the cities have seen massive urbanisation at the cost of rivers. The…
