https://www.scmp.com/rss/518183/feed Arti Das is a freelance journalist based in Goa, India. She writes about art, culture, and ecology and has been published in The Guardian, Atlas Obscura, The Hindu and Mongabay-India. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Houses in ruins, a washed-out temple, cracked earth surrounding puddles of water and a deafening silence welcome summer visitors to Kurdi in Goa, western India. Submerged for most of the year, the remnants of the once thriving village, also known as Curdi, re-emerge from receding reservoir waters during the hot summer months to remind visitors of a bygone era. In 1986, Kurdi was flooded by the reservoir of the then newly built Salaulim Dam. It had been a village of paddy fields, and plantations... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3257789/how-drowned-village-india-reappears-each-summer-be-flooded-visitors-and-litter-new-tour-could-change?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3257789/how-drowned-village-india-reappears-each-summer-be-flooded-visitors-and-litter-new-tour-could-change?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Apr 2024 09:15:17 +0000