PREPARE A CITY THAT CAN SURVIVE FUTURE EXTREME WEATHER
CHENNAI - PREPARE A CITY THAT CAN SURVIVE FUTURE EXTREME WEATHER Obviously, this article is triggered by the Michaung cyclone that hit the city in the first week of December 2023. However, it is a summary of my remembered experience that pans 4 decades of the city. I have forever lived in Chennai and it is my home. I have lived in the central Chennai Triplicane during schooling, moved up to Madhavaram in North Chennai during my youth and later moved south to Velachery and now live in Besant Nagar. Over the past 5 decades of my memory in this city, the last two decades are quite striking for the consistent natural disasters that I have witnessed. I have written this article in parts, first as my own experience as someone going through the several experiences of floods over the years in this city, the second part of it is about the struggles of activism and policy making in the building of the city that is today and the last part is to give an idea about how all things can be changed