Nandita Das Instagram – Repost by @reposta.app_ ——— MOTHERLANDMAGAZINE.COM👈🏾👈🏾 🌊🌊For centuries, the Yamuna River has sustained the many cities preceding modern-day Delhi by becoming their ecological and agricultural lifeline. The sandstone walls of Mughal era monuments flanking the floodplain reveal watermarks of the Yamuna even today. But with a dramatic reduction in the ecological flow of the waters, the river has become a receptacle for all that the city discards, its effluent and its waste, leaving little room for the ecologically sacred. The Yamuna has slowly been erased––both from the urban landscape and from public consciousness. The Motherland Yamuna issue is in collaboration with the scholars and students of the University of Virginia and Tulane University. Through the partnership, we’ve explored their visions of transforming the river into an environmental nucleus for modern Indian society, and the potential of once again anchoring our cities within their original ecology. Each story in the Yamuna issue seeks to evoke the lost bond between a river and her people: to see the Yamuna for all it could be and all it once was, instead of simply what it has become today. Get your Yamuna e-issue on motherlandmagazine.com 👈🏾👈🏾 @uva @tulaneu #thisismotherland #motherlandreport #yamuna . . #river #india #environment #environmentalist #incredibleindia #water #conservation #sustainableliving