TY - BOOK AU - Vyam,Subhash AU - Wolf,Gita TI - Water T2 - Art/environment SN - 9789383145614 AV - JUV TD 388 .V93 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Chennai, India PB - Tara Books KW - Gond (Indic people) KW - Folklore KW - Juvenile literature KW - Water KW - Water conservation KW - Juvenile works KW - Literature KW - lcgft N1 - "English text from the Hindi oral narrative by Subhash Vyam: Gita Wolf"--Colophon N2 - "Did we take more than our due?" Weaving his tale around a Gond fable about water, artist Subash Vyam muses on the history of our relationship to this most primeval of elements. A migrant to the city, he recalls growing up in a village where water was always scarce and human ingenuity was welcomed. In contrast to the village, the needs of the city are monstrous and there is a great danger that we will run this resource completely dry. In the end, there is only one way forward: all communities need to make a pact with Nature in order to survive -- or in our mindless push to harness her powers, we might lose our own place in this universe ER -