Rivers remember : #CHENNAIRAINS and the shocking truth of a manmade flood / Krupa Ge

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Prologue: 'How on Earth Did This Happen to Us:' -- A Part of Our Home Dies -- A Part of Their Home Survives -- Where Does Our Water Come From? -- How a City Went Under -- What Caused the Floods? -- Memories of Adyar -- Love and Loss on the Banks of the Adyar -- Washed Out by the River -- An Invisible People -- #ChennaiRains -- 'It Was the Worst Day of My Life -- Sources, Statements and Silence -- Death of Dignity -- Memories of Kosasthalaiyar -- Neglect in North Chennai -- Rowing Against the Tide -- Memories of B'Canal -- Beyond Redemption -- "The Rains Still Make Me Nervous' -- Like the Smell of Drying Fish ... -- An Unequal Flood -- Whose City Is It Anyway? -- Red Rice's Debt -- Memories of Cooum I -- Memories of Cooum II -- Who Drowned Chennai? -- Why This Report Was Buried -- Home on the River for Chennai's Elite -- Epilogue: The Flood That Wasn't -- Notes -- Acknowledgements

"Floodwaters, sewage and the remains of humankind's greed swallowed a city whole in December 2015.
Waters from the city's 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, Kerala in 2018 and Bengaluru in 2022. As they might in Hyderabad someday, or in Kolkata.
To make sense of the horror of those days-the lost lives, homes and livelihoods --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."-- Back cover