Arati Kumar-Rao
Writer and Photographer at Freelance
@BBC 100 Women ‘23 @NatGeo Explorer Chronicling Landscapes with Photos+Words+Art Book: Marginlands https://t.co/uRMCXxIaO1 https://t.co/L1wZipJIdM
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3 weeks ago |
foreignaffairs.com | Pratap Bhanu Mehta |Arati Kumar-Rao
This bookis a beautifully written, evocative journey through India’s coastlines, rivers, glaciers, deserts, and cities. The desecration of India’s natural landscapes is heartbreaking. Its legendary rivers are dying. Construction projects and subsequent landslides have marred its mountain ranges. Its glaciers are shrinking. Induced by climate change and poor urban planning, floods grow ever more frequent. Sixty-three percent of the coastline in the southwestern state of Kerala has eroded.
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Aug 29, 2024 |
darknlight.com | Arati Kumar-Rao
The northeast monsoon lashed Bangalore one night in October 2018. Shards of lightning lit up rooftops and a grid of roads in a gated community glistened in the southeastern part of the city. On a driveway somewhere in that grid lay a tiny furry body, curled up. Water flowed in rivulets all around it. Its eyes were shut tight. A woman, stepping out of her house, saw it and called for help.
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Nov 21, 2023 |
the-star.co.ke | Arati Kumar-Rao
The night of 5 August 2010 is still fresh in the memory of the people of Ladakh, in northern India, when it felt like a cloud had burst over the area surrounding the capital, Leh. One year's worth of rain fell on the cold desert in just two apocalyptic hours. Massive walls of sludge swallowed up everything in their path. Scrambling people were buried mid-stride under a thick brown-grey mass. Several hundred people were never found after that fateful night.
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Sep 22, 2023 |
downtoearth.org.in | Arati Kumar-Rao
India's rich, diverse landscapes are brought nearly to waste by misguided decisions in name of development. The cracks in the land hold valuable lessons, says writer and artist Arati Kumar-Ra The Ganga here is democratic in its ravenous appetite. It eats everything–paddy fields, mango orchards, schools, homesteads, factories, bakeries, markets, textile shops, sugarcane fields.
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Aug 5, 2023 |
nationalheraldindia.com | Arati Kumar-Rao
Nowhere is the value of understanding local geographies more eroded than in our cities, says Arati Kumar-Rao in a sparkling new volume on ‘Indian landscapes on the brink’Flying higher than Mount Everest, I look down from the smudged, double-glassed oval porthole of a commercial plane; 37,000 feet below me I see a twisting, turning blue-and-white river, braiding into itself silt and sand. On its banks are hamlets and a mosaic of green and brown farmland.
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