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essayist, essaying • reach me: regajha@gmail • read me ⇩
Chennai, India
Joined March 2011
The Indian Express offered me their 'The City & I' column to write about my hometown. (Thank you @adya_goyal & @Paromita_Ch.). Here's the short essay which was in print yesterday, on the many ways to see Chennai—"above all, a waterscape.".
indianexpress.com
This is, above all else, a waterscape in relentless negotiation with urbanism’s impulse to conquer, to want. Our truest impulse, Chennai memories remind me, is to playmate and co-create with non-hu...
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RT @adya_goyal: Such a lovely piece! For anyone who feels “stuck” in a city, Rega offers new ways of experiencing one’s city for the first….
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Friends, a moment for Chennai—. Govt. plans to expand the Ennore thermal power station will:.- subject 1000s of children to perilous pollution.- increase flood risk by blocking parts of the Kosasthalayar River & Ennore Creek. Do help request @mkstalin & @TThenarasu to #ScrapETPS.
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