IN THE MIDST OF A 'VERY REAL' CLIMATE CHANGE
The New Indian Express|November 08, 2024
I didn't know much about Long Tank that seems to have snaked through what is T Nagar today according to a map that has been etched in my memory ever since I first encountered it, until a few years ago.
KRUPA GE
IN THE MIDST OF A 'VERY REAL' CLIMATE CHANGE

During research for Rivers Remember, I stumbled upon a large sized digital map and I obsessively zoomed and zoomed into it, until I found what would have been the main road around my home. It was... inside the Long Tank.

As I write this, a submersible motor is furiously pumping water out of my building's basement parking lot. Every year, before the fears of flooding begin to creep into others around me, even as they post photos of rain-drenched leaves, crisp banana fritters and tea, set to Ilaiyaraja's music on their Insta stories, a slow trickle of water emerging from a gap in the wall in my basement begins to gnaw away at the peace in our otherwise amiable neighbourhood.

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