What choking Bengaluru can learn from ancient Harappans

Sep 12, 2022 | 20:58 IST

Today’s town planners can take a lesson from the Harappans – zero-encroachment upon drains and sewers, and also the presence of manmade and natural water bodies

What excessive rains last week did to Bengaluru is not a problem specific to India’s tech capital. The national capital and the commercial capital of India too, like most cities of India, have been vulnerable to even normal downpours. In June, when it rained in Delhi, a photograph from 1970, showing a waterlogged Connaught Place, the central business district of the national capital, went viral on social media.

A waterlogging scene from 1970 at Connaught Place, Delhi after a heavy rainfall (Source: Madan Mahatta Archives/Twitter)

Mumbai presented a similar picture in early July, when many parts of the megalopolis were under the weather following a heavy downpour.

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What choking Bengaluru can learn from ancient Harappans

Today’s town planners can take a lesson from the Harappans – zero-encroachment upon drains and sewers, and also the presence of manmade and natural water bodies

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What choking Bengaluru can learn from ancient Harappans

Today’s town planners can take a lesson from the Harappans – zero-encroachment upon drains and sewers, and also the presence of manmade and natural water bodies

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