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When the river rises

Por: The Boston Globe Life October 06, 2022

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YADAHALLI, India — I am not yet 50, but my childhood seems as if it happened to someone else in another life, another time. When I was a girl, the 870-mile Krishna River behaved itself. It kept a respectable distance from my village here in Southern India and my family kept a respectable distance from it. Come monsoon season, after summer, the river flooded the low-lying areas around Yadahalli for a couple of weeks, leaving fertile volcanic... + full article



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