“Not dramatically — not the overnight browning of a killed lawn. The browning was gradual enough to be denied ("Bas dry spell hai, next week barish aayegi" — Just a dry spell, rain will come next week) and consistent enough to be undeniable. The consistency being: each day slightly browner than the last, the slightly being the increment and the increment being cumulative and the cumulative producing: a landscape that was losing its colour and the losing being the loss and the loss being: the Western Ghats without green was the Western Ghats without identity.”