Harini Nagendra, Seema Mundoli – “Caste shapes access to water in so many ways”
What drew you to this subject and what were the stark discoveries you made during your research? Floods in and around Chennai in December 2023. (ANI/PIB) The idea for the book came after discussions with Manasi Subramanian from Penguin, the editor of our 2019 book Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities. She asked if we would be interested in writing a book on urban rivers – we liked the idea, but expanded the theme to cover water as a topic, including the many aspects, roles and shades that water takes in…