01915nam a22002417a 4500 20250129155416.0 250129b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780670099696 : Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/103A, H. No.-15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi. : ZBD0456 : 27/01/2025 340.954 NAG Nagendra, Harini. ; Mundoli, Seema. Shades of Blue : Connecting the drops in India's cities. / Harini Nagendra. Gurugram : Penguin , 2023. x, 334p. : 22cm. 349 For millennia, our cities have prospered and grown in the cradles of civilization-fertile lands blessed with rivers, lakes, seas and oceans. From the origins of life on earth, right down to its downfall, biblical or otherwise, water has been integral to the human story. In this passionate and extensively researched tribute to the elixir that sustains us all, authors Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli take us on a panoramic view of the water bodies of India and the urgent need to address their emergent ecological threats. From the Yamuna in Delhi to the Cauvery in Karnataka and the Pichola Lake in Udaipur to the Brahmaputra in Assam, this book is epic in its sweep and yet deeply moving in its intimate concerns. Interspersed with anthropological, legal and scientific vignettes of the water are fascinating anecdotes, ditties, myths and monsters blue and green. This book also brings into dialogue a vast range of colourful characters-from medieval poets to colonial masters and modern scientists-to paint for us a tapestry of connected histories and ring a timely knell for saving the very ecological systems that have sustained us for ages. Social Sciences Drops in India's cities Life on earth Harini Nagendra BOOK 62782 62782 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2025-01-29 Zafaa Books & Distributors 349.00 0 340.954 NAG 30689 2025-01-29 00:00:00 2025-01-29 BOOK