Along the Brahmaputra with @aratikumarrao’s River...

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Along the Brahmaputra with @aratikumarrao’s River Diaries

To see more of Arati’s journey along the Brahmaputra River, follow @aratikumarrao on Instagram.

In her long-term project The River Diaries, Arati Kumar-Rao (@aratikumarrao) traces the path of the Brahmaputra River across South Asia. As a student of business, biophysics, and design, Arati earned three masters degrees and worked for a US technology company before returning to her native India. She now identifies herself as an environmental biographer, who tells the stories of impacted river ecosystems.

“They sustain hundreds of millions of people around the world and are home to a hundred thousand creatures,” she says. “What we do to a river, however, changes this. We dam it, divert it, squeeze it, pollute it, restrain it, mine its bed, gouge out its banks, pluck trees, dyke it, siphon it, dredge it, and sometimes suck these veins of a land dry.”

“Sometimes, the river is not what devastates areas,” she explains, “It is what we do to a river that does.”

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