Living with the River is an audio podcast through which we want to bring the image of the river with our storytelling and conversations and give a sense of the vastness of the river and the lives of the communities that have settled along its bank. The possibility of nurture and destruction both lie within the river and the people it affects. We seek to provide the means to our audience, who have never seen the Brahmaputra and who live lives far removed from the communities that this river nurtures, to have the means to access these communities, their ways of life, and the meaning attached to this river. The constant presence of the river shapes the sensibilities of the people who interact with it, and very concretely affects their understanding of time and space. Activities and festivals are dependent on and tip toe around the river’s own plans.
We seek to have conversations with people who have centered their scholarships and work on the Brahmaputra. We seek to find mediums of understanding and explaining the life around the river in a manner and through a medium which is accessible to an audience that is linguistically and physically removed from the region. It also aims to provide people from this region an engaging way of interacting with the river and its many tales.