The climate emergency is not just about melting glaciers or rising sea levels, it is about livelihoods lost, bodies overburdened, and futures rendered precarious by extreme heat and erratic weather.
The opening line prepares the plot for the entire book. Who was she? Sriveni, who was once, recognized by her beautifully thick black plait, who was a helping hand to her midwife grandma, a distant companion to her twin brothers and a sensitive child who could connect with nature to her father.
Babasaheb Ambedkar's version of democracy depicts a society devoid of any glaring inequality. According to him, there must not be a class that has got all the privileges and a class that has got all the burdens to carry.