When sea food edged out catch from river
A community leader says encroachments, pollution, and lack of desilting of rivers have made them mere sewage carriers and garbage bins. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM Until about four decades ago, people in Madras bought and consumed madava, keluthi, ooda, era, and nandu freshly caught from the city’s rivers and estuaries. You could hear fish mongers hawking out aloud “meen, ma, meen” urging the women…