Care City
As we publish this comic, flash floods are devastating towns, villages, and cities across northern India. Politicians offer condolences, but many of these very leaders have shaped the conditions that caused the floods.
How? This comic explores two urgent truths about water:
How “development” often forgets water’s nature — reducing it to big, visible projects like dams and canals, promising taps in every home, while dismissing original systems and people’s relationship with them.
How traditional water systems are dismissed as outdated or informal — replaced with shiny Western concepts — without recognising the deep connections, rituals, and community care that kept lakes, stepwells, streams, and aquifers alive.
Maybe it’s not too late to look inward — to learn from our own lived experiences and knowledge systems, and turn that into expertise that works with nature, not against it.
We are deeply grateful to Neha Mungekar (PhD), whose work on urban water governance shaped this story. Dr. Mungekar is a change facilitator, participatory governance expert, who is also trained as an architect, urban researcher, and educator working at the intersection of climate change, water systems, and inclusive urban development. Having studied in behaviour science, her research focuses on facilitating transformative processes towards decentralised, community-driven water management and how sensitive governance can make acts of repair and care the need of the hour.
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Written by Shreya Khandekar & Anuj Kale in collaboration with Neha Mungekar (PhD)
Illustrations by Anik Abdullah Aman | Colours by @vaibhavi
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