Till we respect the environment, December will be season of sorrow

Remember, at the peak of the 2015 floods, we were trying to rescue a man who was entirely drenched, bereft of any sense of what was happening save meekly allowing us to lift him onto a boat.

- ANIL SRINIVASAN

Halfway through rowing down, what used to be his street in T Nagar, he suddenly became animated and gesticulated wildly for us to turn the boat around. Grudgingly, standing in a foot and a half of water, I helped push the boat around. We rowed back to his ground-floor apartment, which lay in puddles of water; many things washed away. He went inside and brought a single bottle of whiskey and a photograph of his late wife. I will never forget this moment.