Rivers Remember : #Chennai Rains And The Shocking Truth Of A Manmade Flood

Rivers Remember : #Chennai Rains And The Shocking Truth Of A Manmade Flood

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About The Bookkrupa Ges Sharp And Necessary Investigation Into What Caused Chennai To Drown In A Heavy Downpour Is Also The Story Of All Our Cities.Floodwaters, Sewage And The Remains Of Humankinds Greed Swallowed A City Whole In December 2015. In The Face Of Gross Mismanagement By Those In Power, Chennai Lost Lives, Homes And Livelihoods. Waters From The Citys Many Lakes, Canals And Rivers, Which Humans Had Usurped And Eaten Into With Tar Roads And Concrete Jungles, Retraced Their Old Routes And Ate Anything That Came In Their Way. Like They Did In Mumbai In 2005, Surat In 2006, Srinagar In 2014 And Kerala In 2018. As They Might In Bangalore Someday, Or In Kolkata.To Make Sense Of The Horror Of Those Days, Krupa Ge Spent Over Three Years Filing Rtis, Reading Government Documents And Archival Material, And Interviewing Stakeholders, Journalists And The People Of Chennai. What She Arrives At Is The Shocking Truth Of How Masterly Inactivity Drowned The City, And How It Could Happen Again. And Again.But The Heart Of The Book Is In The Stories Of The People, Including Krupas Own Parents, Who Were Caught Up In The Nightmare Of The Floodsof Their Resilience And Kindness, And The Fault-Lines Of Caste And Class That The Crisis Exposed.About The Authorkrupa Ge Is A Writer Based In Madras. Her Reportage And Cultural Writings Have Appeared In The Hindu, Firstpost And The New Indian Express, Among Other Indian And International Publications Over The Last Thirteen Years. In 2017, She Won A Laadli Award For A Weekly Column On Women In Cinema, Ms. Representation. She Was Awarded The Toto-Sangam Residency Fellowship For The Year 2016, And Was Shortlisted For A Toto Prize In Creative Writing The Same Year. She Is Also Currently Dabbling In Screenwriting. Rivers Remember, Her Debut Book, Was Published In 2019 By Context. What We Know About Her (Context, 2021), Her First Novel, Was Longlisted For The Jcb Prize For Literature.

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