Submerged Worlds And Other Amazing Stories Of India’s Mighty Rivers
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : March 2025
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780143462415
- Imprint : Penguin Books
- Age Group : Young Reader
- Language : English
The job of any river is to flow and as it flows, it nurtures everything around it, everything within it. But when human ...
The job of any river is to flow and as it flows, it nurtures everything around it, everything within it. But when human interference affects this natural flow, it brings floods and droughts, displacement and suffering in its wake.
From melting glaciers to urban flooding, sand mining to dammed rivers, river rights to river interlinking projects, dead rivers to river revival, this book is an attempt to understand India’s rivers through their stories and the narratives of those whose lives are interlaced with the life of rivers.
Mumbai-based writer Vaishali Shroff is an award-winning author of children’s books. Over 100 of her stories have been published in school textbooks, anthologies, magazines and portals. Though she has an engineering and management background, she loves to write poetry, flash fiction and research-based stories, both fiction and non-fiction. Her travel experiences are reflected in her published works.
