
The Godavari flows
with a languorous grace, its sheets of multi-fingered brown moving as if in
slow motion between the hills. Cows, goats and sheep graze in the distance, and
the hills are thickly carpeted in various shades of green. It’s hot here at the
dam site near Ramayyapeta village of Polavaram mandal in Andhra Pradesh’s West
Godavari district.
On the river as old as
time, at a time as tumultuous as its flood, the project in the works has a
special resonance in the Andhra regi