Romila Raj

LA4015-1

Living beings inhabiting the edge of water systems existed since time immemorial. In forest ecosystems, we observe that this ‘act of settling’ by the water is most prominent as represented by the abundance of life in these zones. This project aims at looking at the forest ecology through the lens of settling by the water. It began by a familiar comparison the human settlements to forest grains. It investigated various systems of water and habitats along these hydrological systems in the Tropical dry deciduous forest of Jaisamand. It culminated in a detailed study of edges of a wetland ecosystem that house unfathomable complexities that create a complex , ephemeral threshold of many overlapping territories of the forest dwellers who settled by the water.