A young girl spends her afternoon playing with a homemade fishing rod, in hopes to catch a fish. The reality is there are no more fish here after years of pollution and rubbish being dumped into this river. She can only dream or wish for a clean river to play and swim in. Many rivers in India are polluted due to rubbish and slums areas that are not maintain by the locals and authorities.
Till today nothing has been done to clean the areas here in Chennai. Children here stand a high risk of deceases or infections as these are their playing grounds. This is the future we have left them with.
The main river here near the Surya Nagar slums has been badly polluted and damaged after the Chennai major floods. The Surya Nagar slums were the first to be stuck by the rushing waters from the dam close by. Over 800 families were affected by the 15ft high waters. There is also a golf course on the opposite side on this slums, giving it a green view of the playing fields.
The human race has being living in an outer material world since the consumer system controls our path, today we are in the race to destroy the same planet we consume from. Soon there will be nothing left for us to consume, except finding the inner truth of what our paths are.
(Chennai – India)
