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And how might those working in the urban sea provide new modes and idioms for living in cities with sea level rise? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1596575320028-3RWJMQWE4ABE2E2YG184/drawing-on-wetness-thumbnail.jpg Home - Rhea Shah - University of Pennsylvania The project uses drawing as a method of analysis to reveal multiple temporary separations within wetness created by three practices in the city : the flamingo migration, Koli fishing, and the construction and usage of the local train infrastructure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593811768434-8PYFLDNTBIIH9UY876FW/intertidal-living-project-thumbnail.jpg Home - Shaunak Modi + Sejal Mehta - Marine Life of Mumbai We focus on the intertidal regions of Mumbai, to document the extraordinary proliferation of non-human life that is nurtured in this anthropogenic landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593811799566-W6M3PR75VPHTW9KAATRG/Slide-9.jpg Home - Helen White + Ellie Kerns - Haverford College Courtney Daub + Adwaita Banerjee - University of Pennsylvania Siddharth Chitalia - School of Environment and Architecture Zulekha Sayyed - CAMP We write biographies of plastics that now inhabit Mumbai’s seas. Where did they come from? And where are they going? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1595193862311-60MQHCPEKZAYEIYGA59V/socioecological-vulnerability-cover.jpg Home - P. Pallavi, D. Parthasarathy + Arun Inamdar - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) This project examines the ways in which the residents of Mahul and Mahim are made vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. https://inhabitedsea.net/about daily 0.75 2021-05-28 https://inhabitedsea.net/urban-sea daily 0.75 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613419237775-NEZQP0MB9KPU844HCOUH/strip+1.jpg Urban Sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593635872989-6L6MCUUFDVCR6RD001ZG/IMG_6108.jpg Urban Sea Images by Nikhil Anand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593635890465-QOGBD90KKS1RPZ5DHHAT/IMG_0305.jpg Urban Sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593635896163-B3D22KC7686FD2NEN6CP/IMG_6259.jpg Urban Sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593635924710-G60QKKL2TDM14RFLWSQQ/IMG_7417.jpg Urban Sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613419269552-IJ67XV69JCMQ0NOP9W79/strip+2.jpg Urban Sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613415765929-HA7I55FXQ8ZV0GIVYZM8/Oped_1.jpg Urban Sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613420318743-XTX0HIZYM5IADP05HNZL/2050+map.png Urban Sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613415935491-CH9AX2O46VOP3WFOEPLC/oped3.png Urban Sea https://inhabitedsea.net/monsoon-in-lallubhai daily 0.75 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1610986166545-I9AIPJR1V8XKJQN3KTNU/Screen+Shot+2020-07-01+at+5.13.07+PM.png Monsoon in Lallubhai The compound site on De Lisle’s map, 1854. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1610986018324-MRU59EUCTHB4ZBRFH2KV/Screen+Shot+2020-07-01+at+5.13.19+PM.png Monsoon in Lallubhai On the Greater Bombay guide map, 1969. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1610986071331-LO9SFB25ZDXUBLJPEAAL/Screen+Shot+2020-07-01+at+5.12.46+PM.png Monsoon in Lallubhai In 2019, with major drains marked. https://inhabitedsea.net/social-ecologies-of-the-coast daily 0.75 2021-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1595194326302-L0BC0WONSWQXV7R8Y0P7/IMG_20191229_231313.jpg Social Ecologies of the Coast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1595194328035-0JBLTVRUPAHVM6WXVKFX/IMG_20200103_110322.jpg Social Ecologies of the Coast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1595194334976-ASU9GWY8HXPVUEBA62V6/IMG20200115170536.jpg Social Ecologies of the Coast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1595194346188-LN3AFXS8EXPNZEMCMMUC/IMG20200103115144.jpg Social Ecologies of the Coast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1595194366359-YGXT1JZN1LPVFTGTC95D/IMG20200117165701.jpg Social Ecologies of the Coast https://inhabitedsea.net/the-sea-and-the-city daily 0.75 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593811435077-V0BHEG5EFMDS2DEA9ILV/6.jpg The Sea and the City Photographs by Abhishek Anil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593811436163-4UV9IE78EWDDDSKRV39K/9.jpg The Sea and the City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593811435433-XGZNQDX6FAW6M6ZPTAFA/IMG_20171007_145141.jpg The Sea and the City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593811435315-LMA4XVJTW6TCN63YFRMK/TISS-5-%281%29.jpg The Sea and the City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593811436600-MF8UUTD2HNIKHMKVKSWM/TISS-IMG_20171007_150236.jpg The Sea and the City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613411686323-7SOTHKUCBQQKDM8A6J7B/Screen+Shot+2021-02-15+at+12.45.05+PM.png The Sea and the City - 1965 Circular recognizing rights of Kolis View Document https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613411726755-TSZU4K9RT82R4QO9QN2A/Screen+Shot+2021-02-15+at+12.45.40+PM.png The Sea and the City - 1991 Mumbai map showing fishing reservations in the DP View Document https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613411773144-C7GF38TQAB99CC4WAVG7/Screen+Shot+2021-02-15+at+12.45.23+PM.png The Sea and the City - Letter refusing fishers projects saying no construction allowed due to coastal zone protection View Document https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613412118853-9P8JR1CK32GDIW2JBNF0/Screen+Shot+2021-02-15+at+1.00.48+PM.png The Sea and the City - Possession receipt of BEST land View Document https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613412098420-L9TK5OPNG9F9XMMNW08G/Screen+Shot+2021-02-15+at+12.58.01+PM.png The Sea and the City - BARC restriction on fishing View Document https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613413438165-61MO72O3TN63P05YSAHD/Map+of+Trombay+Koliwada%E2%80%99s+remembered+boundaries+showing+the+flows+and+labour+involved+in+fishing+practice+.png The Sea and the City - Koliwada (कोळीवाडा) The villages of the indigenous fishing community of Maharashtra, the Kolis, are called Koliwada, which literally means settlement of the Kolis. Kolis’ notion of home or village spans land, mangroves and sea, transcending simple land-sea and workplace-residence boundaries to include their customary fishing commons. These include communally-owned lands within and adjoining their residential settlement (gaothan), and fishing grounds in the sea, that have customarily been used for fishing-related activities (for eg, jetty, fish market, open areas for fish drying and repairing boats, fishing stakes in the sea). Fishing commons are governed by the traditional fisher caste panchayat. Image: Map of Trombay Koliwada’s remembered boundaries showing the flows and labour involved in fishing practice Koliwada (कोळीवाडा) The villages of the indigenous fishing community of Maharashtra, the Kolis, are called Koliwada, which literally means settlement of the Kolis. Kolis’ notion of home or village spans land, mangroves and sea, transcending simple land-sea and workplace-residence boundaries to include their customary fishing commons. These include communally-owned lands within and adjoining their residential settlement (gaothan), and fishing grounds in the sea, that have customarily been used for fishing-related activities (for eg, jetty, fish market, open areas for fish drying and repairing boats, fishing stakes in the sea). Fishing commons are governed by the traditional fisher caste panchayat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613413463169-LEA303CBYQPHFXLK3MW8/mage+of+Ekvira+Aai+from+Chandrakant+Vaity%E2%80%99s+house+in+Trombay+Koliwada.jpg The Sea and the City Ekvira Aai (एकवीरा आई) The specific form of shakti sacred to the Kolis is Ekvira. She is the mother goddess who is the ancestral deity (कुलदेवी) of the Koli and Agri community. Her temple is located at Karla Caves near Lonavala in Maharashtra. The legend goes that the cave was built for her by the Pandavas during their exile in the forest. Chaitra Navratri (that generally falls in March-April) is an occasion when thousands of Kolis pay homage to their ancestral deity. Responsible for the welfare of the koliwada, Ekvira’s temple is usually located at the boundary of the residential settlement. Trombay’s elders remember a time when sea water lapped against the temple, but today the sea has receded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613413176844-8CL9PYE7OCDH0452KIJ7/Full+moon+night+when+coconuts+are+offered+to+sea+on+occasion+of+Narli+Poornima.jpg The Sea and the City Naarli Purnima (नारळी पौर्णिमा) Naarli Purnima is one of the most auspicious days for the Koli community. It's the full moon day of the Hindu month of Shravan which mostly falls in the month of August. This festival is celebrated for marking the beginning of the fishing season after the break taken for the monsoons. A coconut is offered for safety and prosperity while at sea. Fishers refer to the Indic calendar while talking about fishing because it tracks the moon, which is central to guiding artisanal fishing practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613413218349-IBAILW8SZGRPDMZ8KI2I/Hori+being+towed_high+tide+in+the+creek.jpg The Sea and the City Hori (होळी) Hori is a non-mechanised fishing boat made of either wood or fibreglass. It acts as the bridge between land and sea. Other fishing boats are too big to be used in the shallow waters and mud of the intertidal zone, hence the hori is used to access fishing boats anchored in deep water. Horis have remained important to fishing in the Koliwada as the sea has receded and fishers have to wade through the mud to access the sea. Fishers tow the hori behind their fishing boats while departing for a fishing trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613413484494-IAD8X2S09SE6BYXLZ3X7/Trombay+Koliwada%E2%80%99s+saj.jpg The Sea and the City Saj (सज) Saj are Trombay Koliwada’s customary fishing areas in the coastal sea that are demarcated with bamboo stakes, ropes and rocks and handed down from one generation to another. The fisher caste panchayat possesses records of the saj and governs this fishing practice. The Maharashtra government does not recognise the fisher’s rights over their saj today, but upto about 15 yrs ago, Trombay’s fishers say they paid an annual tax to the Customs & Excise Dept for use of their saj. This practice that served as a license to use these hereditary, demarcated spaces in the sea for fishing, has now been discontinued. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613413368520-ATE2BR95BSP2EZWHT4DW/Khajindari+fisher+of+Trombay+Koliwada.jpg The Sea and the City Khajindari (खाजिंदारी) fishing Khajindari fishing is a type of subsistence fishing practiced in the intertidal zone amidst the mud or mangroves using bare hands or very basic fishing gear. Crab and neuti (a type of small fish) are among the fish caught by khajindari fishers. This type of fishing involves the back-breaking labour of bending over marshy lands for several hours a day. 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And how might those working in the urban sea provide new modes and idioms for living in cities with sea level rise? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1596575292074-I195VI5CP230AQ77X1LA/drawing-on-wetness-thumbnail.jpg Projects - Rhea Shah - University of Pennsylvania The project uses drawing as a method of analysis to reveal multiple temporary separations within wetness created by three practices in the city : the flamingo migration, Koli fishing, and the construction and usage of the local train infrastructure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593811768434-8PYFLDNTBIIH9UY876FW/intertidal-living-project-thumbnail.jpg Projects - Shaunak Modi + Sejal Mehta - Marine Life of Mumbai We focus on the intertidal regions of Mumbai, to document the extraordinary proliferation of non-human life that is nurtured in this anthropogenic landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1593811799566-W6M3PR75VPHTW9KAATRG/Slide-9.jpg Projects - Helen White + Ellie Kerns - Haverford College Courtney Daub + Adwaita Banerjee - University of Pennsylvania Siddharth Chitalia - School of Environment and Architecture Zulekha Sayyed - CAMP We write biographies of plastics that now inhabit Mumbai’s seas. 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cyclone. Earthquakes born in the fault line that criss-crosses the district, further rearrange waterbodies both above and below the surface. Monsoon and tides play to create a mosaic of seasonal grasslands and wetlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1612836667602-ZULIRT0E9CDJ3CVEH0JP/FR_002_HighRes.jpg Flamingo Rabari The Rann (desert) and its dynamic wetness breathes pastoralism into life. Kutch is home to India’s largest community of nomadic herders. The Rabaris, Maldharis and Jats traverse the Rann with their camel, goats, sheep, buffaloes and cows in search of pastures - inhabiting a particular threshold of wetness - a monsoon held in shrubs and grasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613346178950-YU8MG59UDJVGV3RHC9LC/FR_003_01.jpg Flamingo Rabari When a young girl gets married, her mother gifts her a bedsheet, embroidered with signs of the desert, images of symbiotic plants and animals that make the desert, and feathers from a flamingo, retrieved by her father from the banks of Lake Bhamke after a week long camel ride through the desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613346369535-4WUQIFNVVUM96Y3O06WK/FR_003_02.jpg Flamingo Rabari The stitches on the cloth mirror the sharp lines and harsh forms around them. The material, the symbolic and the mythical weave into a common reality - a language of wetness shared by all desert nomads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1612924293808-ESP36VBTD0Q5TDF4JRA0/FR_004_HighRes-%281%29.jpg Flamingo Rabari Much like the sea, the desert vastness needs to be read to be traversed, its syntax learned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613345870463-EXYNUGQYGPYVEP7EH1N9/FR_004_HighRes.jpg Flamingo Rabari A special set of semiotic practitioners - trackers and navigators, who speak the deserts tongue reveal it and translate it through their practices. Pugees, as they are colloquially called, are expert trackers, keepers of a dying art. They interpret footsteps in the desert, to identify species, gender, speed, movement, direction and time of journey. The Rabari’s trust that their ‘animals always find their way’, and navigating the desert becomes an act of moving with the stars and following the animals; becoming agents of wetness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613345908964-VI9Q5DODJW65B2J0VHZP/FR_005_HighRes.jpg Flamingo Rabari https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1612829485535-3SHS4U6T1OAEVXE4WS35/FR_Scroll_HighRes.jpg Flamingo Rabari https://inhabitedsea.net/flamingo-coast daily 0.75 2021-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613348076036-YEYOF3RF2K91GSNNZ8OX/FC_000.jpg Flamingo Coast Flamingos as seen from Koli boat at Airoli, Thane Creek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1612926751098-I3DCDIW2FBJNJO10AKBV/FC_001.jpg Flamingo Coast Along the Sewri and Thane Creek, the flamingos arrive to feed in the muddy, saline waters, as their breeding grounds (in Kutch and elsewhere) dry up. Flamingos feed on larva, small insects, blue-green algae, mollusks, crustaceans, and small fish that inhabit coastal wetlands. Their feeding practice, that requires them to swallow large amounts of saline water, is supported by a unique system of internal osmoregulation, through the salt glands in their nostrils. Salt accumulates at the gland and is shaken off by the flamingo as it crystallizes, much like in saltpans that operate on the same environment as flamingos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1612926856703-OOEK8UUN0BHHWXGSRAVR/FC_002.jpg Flamingo Coast Can the flamingo practice of feeding allow us to perceive the coast as the meeting of saline and fresh waters? The flamingo redraws the coast at a threshold of salinity concentration, constantly changing, with the monsoon and tides, the gradient and composition of the soil and organic waters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613348413986-2MG8J3XVWH561KBJKXO7/FC_004%2B5_new.jpg Flamingo Coast (L) The coast from Mumbai to Kutch is redrawn and straightened, making visible the mapped ‘edge’ of land - the high tide line. (R) Sections are cut through the same strips used to straighten the coast, revealing the topography of the straightened coast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1612927701681-777VI6DWIH0J1NEYHR9Z/FC_005.gif Flamingo Coast Illustrating the undivided continuity of body and environment, the greater flamingo’s (Phoenicopterus Roseus) feathers turn pink through the pigments they eat from their environment. In Mumbai the flamingos present a challenge to ideas of pollution and conservation, increased sewage in the thane creek and sewri, have potentially resulted in an abundance of the blue green algae that the flamingos feed on. The construction of the mumbai trans harbour link bridge, that many conservationists argue will affect the flamingos habitat has so far seemed to leave them unperturbed. Sightings through 2019-2020 found them in large numbers, right by the loud and invasive construction site, amidst moored boats and debris. Local villagers at Airoli (where a previous bridge crossed their waters, say that they believe the bridge slowed the waters down the flamingos returned after the construction, in even larger numbers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1612926672757-YGRMRENTFX4J37AJ2R18/FC_Scroll.jpg Flamingo Coast https://inhabitedsea.net/worli-coast daily 0.75 2021-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613352476776-F9F4VHA8JX1SSYYEOWQD/WC_001.jpg Worli Coast The constructed coast mediates the relationships and ecologies of the shore and the city. Once drawn, it directs the gaze of planners, urban designers, surveyors and gains more agency, than the material shore. The coast is straightened along the line drawn, creating a rigid divide in an otherwise shifting terrain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613351806483-OFFFOKS8XRDM92ZA424H/WC_02.jpg Worli Coast Based on the directionality of the dol nets, the ebb and flow directions are mapped and loosely divided along 6 hour zones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613351748911-ZWGJSVD412GEYFD8IMXU/WC_002.jpg Worli Coast The tidal currents are overlaid with the strips of the coast, each segment of land’s ‘edge’, oriented perpendicular to the direction of the tide in a particular moment of time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613351855289-P16R61NR3YFM82PR6VCW/WC_004.jpg Worli Coast The strips are arranged according to the tides time, altering a map to include temporality and embody the dynamism of the tide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613351965025-9NEGINMLJJPBIJJPAJ6E/WC_005.jpg Worli Coast Patches along the shore that act as small protected bays are identified by what the tides do not directly hit, these are further reoriented and straightened to form the final drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613352117142-8R3A1SKT7RYMCY4ZKWIF/WC_006.jpg Worli Coast The re-oriented shoreline, relates seamlessly with the Koliwada homes and streets that follow the tides, always facing the sea and tides. The coast is not a hard edge, in soft muddy flats of the intertidal zone, koli boats lie shored and young boys harvest worms that are then exported as fishing bait. Mossy walls and slippery steps move to the seashore. Drying clothes, potspans, electric poles and wires, temporary extensions and waste from homes fills the space between hard edge and sea. With the lack of sewage lines in most of the sea facing koliwada, the bath often extends to the beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613349429609-E8YZ1945T6RWQIW4YB8X/WC_Scroll.jpg Worli Coast https://inhabitedsea.net/worli-horizon daily 0.75 2021-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613353186758-QKHDLGBJZQAJIWKM9JH9/WH_001.jpg Worli Horizon The Worli fort offers views across the horizon of the city and sea, its location simultaneously within and beyond both sea and city; the quintessential transitional space, the city’s balcony. From the fort the city and boats are all just breaks in the otherwise continuous steady horizon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613353411663-MDHB5U0BIQ955U6KOCCN/WH_003.jpg Worli Horizon Traditional types of Koli Boats - now mostly replaced. The shilpil - smallest of boats, a companion to larger boats at sea, or a vessel to hug the coast and reach the trawlers moored deeper, the hora to carry 9-11 people, for midscale daytime operations, the galbat (trawler) the largest of Koli boats, which may derive its name from the Dutch single masted ship - the galliot and goes out to the deep seas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613867059399-HPIDHTO4UIEP5BI19T94/WH_03.jpg Worli Horizon Visibility is never a reliable condition for the kolis, with the city’s growing smog seeing is an even more skilled art. Smog on a late winter day in Worli, obscures all navigational signs on the shore and in the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613353259521-X1BROGFWK7PN421HW0YY/WH_Scroll.jpg Worli Horizon https://inhabitedsea.net/worli-stake daily 0.75 2021-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613354145199-93MIAI606VYJLCCFGFZR/WS_001.jpg Worli Stake The dol net, stitched from 5 different parts, the mor, chiret, katra, majavla, khola, from stake to end, made with meshes of increasing fineness. In conjunction with the seasons the fag end of the net is changed. The finest mesh at the end, the khola is replaced by the more open par, in peak season, when the fishers are not interested in catching small fish. Narendra Koli. October 2019. Drawing of Dol Net for author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613354232057-CEZ40GLD1Q27WBT0UJ46/WS_002.jpg Worli Stake The dol net with its varying meshes all rolled up and the disco-net - a fine net to use for creek and near shore fishing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613354336813-CSO0XVYT5030FICK2DRA/WS_003.jpg Worli Stake Edward Lear traveling around India in 1875, painted these scraps, off the coast of Bombay and from the shore. As with all agents of wetness, Lear sees a plethora of colors in sea and sky, noted in for reference Off Bombay, Bombay. January,1875. Edward Lear landscape drawings. Houghton Library, Harvard College Library. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/c/hou01475c09521/catalog. Accessed February 11, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613354355120-NLVXD7OXZF3PWTVJB2FJ/WS_004.jpg Worli Stake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613354370376-30964D6XHUMKT1MUXW5U/WS_005.jpg Worli Stake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613354384650-SLHVRR6USZH5QWSSB6U9/WS_006.jpg Worli Stake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613354396626-9MNIIB7BTB8NVT24VNX2/WS_007.jpg Worli Stake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613354413392-C415OE63LOC0NS9APJMC/WS_008.jpg Worli Stake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613354535181-2DK7OXUUHNW6PMZNEAD4/WS_009.jpg Worli Stake The water can be mirror-like and clear, kaanch so you can almost see the seabed, or safva, white and foamy, these waters are always receding and indicate the presence of erli (silverfish), or bhilje (sardienes). Heavily sedimented waters allow the fish to hide, and are better environments for finding large shoals of fish. These waters can be kala , lal, peela or hirva all signs by which to read the ever-shifting sea, the kind of fish they are more likely to harbour and the modes with which to navigate them. The koli’s draw a vertical dividing plane, called saandh, to draw these transitory thresholds in the wetness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613354612701-PFNPVHUN1BFHC7JWYQMY/WS_010.jpg Worli Stake An excerpt from a Kutchi pothi that describes a method to locate a ship with respect to shore. ‘..when the sun comes overhead, we take a plate of bell metal, clean it and fill it with waters from the sea. At noon, we watch the colour of the sun in the water. If the color is black, the coast is close enough to see. If it is yellow the ship is 10 zam away. If it is white the ship is 20 zam away. If it is green the ship is 30 zam away from the coast, if it is red we firmly believe that the ship is deep in the high sea, very far away from the coast. Transcribed by Rajeshirke, Ashok. Pre-Modern Kutchi Navigation Techniques and Voyages. 2014. National Museum, New Delhi & Darshak Itihas Nidhi, Vadodara, Gujarat. Pg 73 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613354059842-MUM8VXQY3WLGYVCF18DR/WS_Scroll.jpg Worli Stake https://inhabitedsea.net/flamingo-wind daily 0.75 2021-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613420841474-GC84662O8VSUM4I5NHR5/FW_001.gif Flamingo Wind Researchers speculate that the flamingos read changes in atmospheric pressure alongside the movement of stars, constellations and tidal currents, to locate feeding grounds and navigate the skies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613420957181-TGNLRNTBD5HU2LTJSHZW/FW_002.jpg Flamingo Wind The monsoon clouds as they rise over Mumbai through June. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613421432157-M6DP3R9G38CX4JPHPVC3/FW_003.jpg Flamingo Wind To take off, they tread the surface of the water, running and using the surface tension of the water to gain speed and pushback. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613421242969-BOTYIVY3M9G1V7ASY0GX/FW_004.jpg Flamingo Wind They channel the growing monsoonal winds as they head back north toward Kutch, when the creek waters in Mumbai grow too turbulent and high for comfort. As they make their way north and lay eggs in nests shaped out of mud, rising a foot above the shallow water / dried lake, the tides start rising, filling the lake just in time for the hatchlings to move. Female flamingos then take off for feeding sites again, leaving a few males to herd the hatchlings through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613420725813-1SPJCAHFA4AMETY97L3A/FW_Scroll.jpg Flamingo Wind https://inhabitedsea.net/drawing-on-wetness daily 0.75 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613868742196-89U18VUJVM1U1AXIZR0K/1.Map-of-Mumbai-Final_web.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613868761162-C5BGFO1ZSCACT6DISNEB/1.Map-of-Sites-Final_web.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613869887331-8XFEYI07X9IICL9X0PBN/Koli-boat-white-space_web.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613612900912-7KSIKQXMWU4QLK0QB2BQ/WC_Scroll_thumbnail.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613612925151-LWK1PGNUS9G6YHJRY302/WH_Scroll_thumbnail.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613612960042-BQWR1FY4VBZIJ9YJXUH4/WS_Scroll_thumbnail.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613869909636-8NBJ841NWSNWTUCFH5HG/Train-white-space_web.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613616120021-OJC19HOYXIBMZ6XCQ5NV/TC_Scroll_thumbnail.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613616293467-JLZ5GE9T7IO0MFLNCA9D/TS_Scroll_thumbnail.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613616205014-M4AF0UXDLV662GE0X6U6/TM_Scroll_thumbnail.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613869929041-RS5C2W4QCEJ695A9MJ5B/Flamingo-wite-space_web.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613613916893-M7YEZMJ443P0ELEJAIG4/FC_Scroll_thumbnail.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613613943262-A4DJ37L498LEEYO87IAM/FR_Scroll_HighRes_thumbnail.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613613962486-XF62TUUAN9MYJQOPBF5N/FW_Scroll_thumbnail.jpg Drawing on Wetness https://inhabitedsea.net/trains-coast daily 0.75 2021-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613615455424-IS5KJE4I1JQTEVB34VM1/TC_001.jpg Trains Coast The key to the 1885 map shows that most of the densely hatched landmass is defined as ‘mud covered in high water’. The framing of the map, and many others like it, along with archival documents speak to the desires of the author more than the material reality of the creeks. The mud is often described as shifting, impossible to measure, impossible to navigate without sinking in a couple of feet and yet when the depth of the creek is measured, it is through floating a bob on top of the muddy water tied to bamboos stretched across the creek (Ibid. - Image 002) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613615561802-0U9PLDDRIS0QHW2W19ZR/TC_002.jpg Trains Coast Excerpts from, ‘The Report of the Committee Appointed by Government to Consider the Subject of Wet Docks for Bombay. 1867, Education Society's Press, Byculla.’ A series of conversations discussing siltation in the Bombay harbour as a result of the creation of Sion and Chemboor Causeways. The excerpts from exchanged letters between the committee, reveal the stark difference in the results of the surveys as seen in drawings and the experience of inhabiting, crossing, measuring and surveying the creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613615704452-K8AOIRLKVUDP3F7KO443/TC_003.jpg Trains Coast The British Library. View from Sion Fort 00011 (2008). Web. The view from Sion Fort to the island of Mahim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613615743406-SRM5C3U2EU8CVL7EBO3K/TC_004.jpg Trains Coast The British Library. View from Sion Fort Plate 10 (2008). Print. The view from Sion Fort to the island of Bombay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613615799125-1WEK31ZB17QF1MKRFAQI/TC_005.jpg Trains Coast The British Library. View of the Breach from Love Grove (2008). Print. The British library’s caption describes the Great Breach as a ‘weak point through which tidal water flowed, sometimes submerging the landmass known as the Flats.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613615836208-MDDTZ2R3WHRW9QHFXWC8/TC_006.jpg Trains Coast The British Library. View of the Breach Causeway at Bombay.(2008). Web Plates from James Wales' 'Bombay Views'. The series was painted for Sir Charles Malet. View of Hornby Vellard, completed in 1784, ‘designed to block the Worli Creek and thereby prevent the flooding of low-lying areas of Bombay at high tide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613615886361-EPK0CYY00ETWT0N59U7Q/TC_007.jpg Trains Coast The British Library. View from Belmont 00009 (2008). Print. Plates from James Wales' 'Bombay Views'. The series was painted for Sir Charles Malet. Malabar Hill to the left and Love Grove toward Mahim on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613615285726-ZWFTHP02VRYJ1KVB8QRO/TC_Scroll.jpg Trains Coast https://inhabitedsea.net/trains-viscosity daily 0.75 2021-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613619231897-IGBMAPN1V2Z17LHB2L7D/TS_001.jpg Trains Viscosity An anthology of train seats, rust and blue PC: Pankaj Anand + Rhea Shah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613619466610-HQMTN1LL3NKRL87A4Q1T/TS_002.jpg Trains Viscosity Floorboards pieced together with adhesive PC: Pankaj Anand + Rhea Shah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613619496841-5D4ABWBWZXN5BL49ABAR/TS_003.jpg Trains Viscosity Tracks covered in stains PC: Pankaj Anand + Rhea Shah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613619585940-J9QABK0O9R4QFT3UZWO3/TS_004.jpg Trains Viscosity Edges rewilding PC: Pankaj Anand + Rhea Shah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613619637740-D8JTTVF5OZQRE22DZEKW/TS_005.jpg Trains Viscosity Station surfaces PC: Pankaj Anand + Rhea Shah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613619112023-0PS1UAJ8B9KYCM6JPGZ3/TS_Scroll.jpg Trains Viscosity https://inhabitedsea.net/trains-stuff daily 0.75 2021-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613620329897-O6FXB6P9EOOYGG2XJ988/TM_001.jpg Trains Stuff Soil samples from the 3 spots of breaches, where the train tracks meet the Mithi and the Mahim creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613620379597-63EFB27HTQLQYBGWZ5HN/TM_002.jpg Trains Stuff Water samples from the same 3 spots, taken at surface and 1.2m below surface https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1613620422606-47LKVKQ1D2D9B4C2BYBZ/TM_003.jpg Trains Stuff Print of 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its ability to blend in with the sandy habitat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616377261542-0575ZG2LI98FZODLN3M1/Hermit+Crab+1.jpeg Crabs Walk Hermit crabs interact with each other on the shore. To what purpose, beyond shell acquisition, is a question that remains unanswered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616377284420-0FFNZ9Z4A7HO3YD8RRL6/Hermit+Crab+2.jpeg Crabs Walk A hermit navigating a colony of Green button polps (Palythoa mutuki). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616377355180-XYEEB4D0ZS10HST62B62/Hermit+Crab+3.jpeg Crabs Walk Hermit crabs wear shells discarded by other animals as protective homes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616378357958-LM78P79AXVKXQRB1GG2V/Porcelain+Crab+1.jpg Crabs Walk Porcelain crabs are anatomically and genetically closer to lobsters than to the ‘real’ crabs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616378381256-ZPZCHIU9K9KL9C1I70QS/Porcelain+Crab+2.jpg Crabs Walk The porcelain crab has only three pairs and long-reaching antennae. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616378420702-XGULI3G2FWKFMTSALC5K/Porcelain+Crab+3.jpg Crabs Walk These crabs prefer the underside of rocks and in between crevices, they’ll run as soon as it senses danger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616378461083-D5TA3GB9FCZYTBQQ90M8/Porcelain+Crab+4.jpg Crabs Walk Since it uses autonomy to escape, you’ll often find their discarded limbs on the shore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616379037158-H7YOMBNAOJH8ZZQCZA0T/Main+Photo+1.jpg Crabs Walk Unlike other animals in their habitat, these crabs prefer waiting out the tide in crevices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616379072165-E3M6I6KNSPPYGL75OCKE/Main+Photo+1%281%29.jpg Crabs Walk Unless you look intently, you might mistake them for a reddish stone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616378976041-PAHHNGRMVT2MZ71NUGEG/Maroon+Stone+Crab+1.jpg Crabs Walk A juvenile Maroon stone crab. https://inhabitedsea.net/cnidarian-walk daily 0.75 2021-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616381199342-QMO5A7W5V3FBT5VP35H1/Sea+Anemone+1.jpeg Cnidarian Walk A Pearly sea anemone (Paracondylactis sinensis) with its column partially above ground, at Juhu beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616381221914-VAC13YDRZGMFKV5PTX59/Sea+Anemone+2.jpeg Cnidarian Walk The sandy shores of Juhu and Girgaon are some of the best places to see these gorgeous animals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616381392089-VYDL48NC0KTX9YMYEIJL/Sea+Anemone+3.jpeg Cnidarian Walk A beautiful Pearly sea anemone at sunset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616463268553-A66SKPPR0KB41TK4025L/Zoantharians+1jpg.jpg Cnidarian Walk Violet Zoanthids react when disturbed by shutting, in this case by a hermit crab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616463324688-5ULG019KBU13BKGOCNZV/Zoantharians+2.jpg Cnidarian Walk The green and brown form of the Green button polyp (Palythoa mutuki). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616463375653-69QUO6VQX3JJFDBM7ZK3/Zoantharians+3.jpg Cnidarian Walk A Green button polyp (Palythoa mutuki) glowing under ultraviolet light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616463418199-8133M947U5TMQN35EC0N/Zoantharians+4.jpg Cnidarian Walk A large colony of Violet zoanthids (Zoanthus sansibaricus) in close proximity to the sea facing skyscrapers of Nepean Sea Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616463829609-XQIL43N7ZZ05Y4UHAD9Q/Stick+Hydroids+1.jpg Cnidarian Walk A Cratena sea slug feeding on the polyps of a stick hydroid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616463853579-XPUOB1UO84OOUSM76DOE/Stick+Hydroids+2.jpg Cnidarian Walk The open polyps can easily be mistaken for flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616463867439-DJ7CD7K39DSI45NEF1W0/Stick+Hydroids+3.jpg Cnidarian Walk The hydroids’ reproductive organs known as Gonophores look like tiny orange flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616464250419-WS01S7XFZ1NMCGN7TAWC/Coral+1.jpg Cnidarian Walk A colony of Snowflake coral (Carijoa sp.) on the Haji Ali rocky shore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616464316472-R32VNEZQ7EALVOM7F8CV/Coral+2.jpg Cnidarian Walk A Gorgonian sea fan (Pseudopterogorgia sp.) at Juhu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616464349468-LQ17MT2BYAMPU248UXQ8/Coral+3.jpg Cnidarian Walk Look closer and you'll realise that they're not all polyps. Here you can see the sea fan's polyps on the top and skeleton shrimps at the bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616464386050-MIEYZRXXUK9QYW3U0FJK/Coral+4.jpg Cnidarian Walk A colony of False flowerpot corals (Bernardpora stutchburyi) at Backbay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616464446572-4C9XIQXXYD7NEQ49P9KM/Coral+5.jpg Cnidarian Walk False pillow coral (Pseudosiderastrea tayamai) with the Haji Ali dargah in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616465174146-O553469V0I914KKI1T7W/Monsoon+Visitors+1.jpg Cnidarian Walk A Blue button (Porpita porpita) waiting out the lowtide in a tidepool at Bandstand, Bandra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616465228534-RDOA7AAQLBWTACU9JAMO/Monsoon+Visitors+2.jpg Cnidarian Walk Portuguese man o’ war (Physalia physalis) get their names from the shape of their floats, which some say resemble the sails of Portuguese warships of the past. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616465275440-JPTM5PCXYFD99U27YIMQ/Monsoon+Visitors+3.jpg Cnidarian Walk A macro closeup of Portuguese man o’ war (Physalia physalis) nematocysts (in yellow). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616465323753-VIHFKRIVFLACTUPAV4C4/Monsoon+Visitors+4.jpg Cnidarian Walk A top view of a Portuguese man o’ war (Physalia physalis). https://inhabitedsea.net/path-ahead daily 0.75 2021-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/7b94feb3-8d17-4390-aa1f-87ca1e191dbc/End+collage+8.jpeg Path Ahead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616466381394-2UQ6QV0DOC5ZBJY1CBUK/End+collage+1.jpg Path Ahead Zoantharia at the Nepean Sea Road shore before and after the cyclones in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616466402292-97Q5JSFBIKAPFFS66NOH/End+collage+2.jpg Path Ahead A colony of corals on a shore covered in siltation after the monsoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616466425550-18Q2N2YNTNEKTPE47IU2/End+collage+3.jpg Path Ahead Construction at Haji Ali, one of the sites for the coastal road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616466467577-DOR8VR0CMGE83TMQAVL3/End+collage+4.jpg Path Ahead Monsoon arrives forcefully on some of the shores - the Koliwada houses and the tide line https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616466625684-O3HNYB85UDXTZ4Z9O1R3/End+collage+5.png Path Ahead The trajectory of the first of three cyclones - Kyarr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616466745983-I6V2ZSV4L1RKU34QBLTA/End+collage+6.png Path Ahead The trajectory of the second cyclone, Maha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef0ffca7371aa569b61d4f7/1616466770649-HAM1ZVW6IQYB93IK18CF/End+collage+7.png Path Ahead The trajectory of the third cyclone, Nisarga