In September 2021, fisherwomen from Pulicat wetlands in India's southern Tamil Nadu state wrote to the Chief Minister, inviting him to their village for a 'seafood fest.' The letter reminded him of his poll promise to protect the wetlands on which their lives and livelihoods depended....from a proposeed expansion of a nearby deep sea port.
Ain Contractor, an architect and a water & sanitation scholar, spent several months in 2021 with communities in the Pulicat wetlands. We discuss the importance of wetlands, how wetland communities care for their habitat, the role of women, and how all that affects all of us.
