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What the Bangalore Floods tell us about our Democracy -Sushmita Pati

-The India Forum Urban floods as in Bangalore are not just a result of failed governance. They also reflect a failure of our democracy, where the citizen does not participate in decision-making and later sees spectacles like demolitions as signs of action. Neecha Nagar was the first film from India to go to the inaugural Cannes Film Festival in 1946 and win the Palme D’or. Neecha Nagar, or the “Lowly City”, was an urban tale of the poor living in the parts of a city that were prone to flooding. In the film, a rich industrialist directs his sewage lines to the lower parts of a city, leading to an outbreak of disease. Paradise, a 2019 Korean film that went on to win the Palme D’Or that year and four Academy awards the next, also told a compelling story of how a city is vertically graded in terms of class. Both films show how water, and the way it flows across cities, has shaped urban life and its class markers. A city like Bengaluru is always anxious about the availability of drinking water on the one hand, but on the other, water also has played a deeply destructive role. Water’s double-edgedness makes it a complex force. Affluence and poverty in the city have been organised around flows of water and have historically shaped dignity of life. A lot has been said and written about the recent floods in Bengaluru. Faulty planning, real estate lobbies, and corruption led to the ecological crisis that the city’s residents are living through now. Corrupt governments and greedy corporations have long colluded to build illegally in Indian cities. Malini Ranganathan’s work on the risk of floods in Bengaluru notes the urban development over old storm drains began years ago (Ranganathan 2015). She shows how places like Bommanahalli, which are low-lying areas, were always prone to flooding. Tech parks and residential complexes were largely able to insulate themselves from floods even while slums in the same areas were inundated. This was a fact of life in the city for several years. Please click here to access.