The article highlights Tripura’s devastating August 2024 floods, exacerbated by heavy rainfall and the Dumboor Dam’s overflow. While Bangladesh’s flooding gained media focus, Tripura’s marginalised communities suffered unnoticed. Poor communication and inadequate disaster response worsened their plight,..

The Dumboor Lake has now been designated as a tourist and resort destination. Transformed into the Coconut Island or Narkel Kunja. The reason for the name ‘Coconut’ is that, prior to the construction of the dam, some tribal people had planted coconut trees on that specific piece of land.

This is the story of the indigenous Tiprasa communities living in the hilly uplands of Tripura, where water insecurity has been exacerbated by extractive corporations searching for natural resources or extracting hydrocarbons. water is the most valuable and significant to the hill tribes in Tripura.

Boroks believe that the supreme God, the creator of the universe and mankind, resides in waters. Twima, or the goddess of water, is worshipped as a household as well as village deity, and rituals are carried out in the rivers or stream to propitiate the goddess. Similar beliefs exist in other indigenous communities of Tripura.

The indigenous people take pride in their natural resources, especially water, as it is the source of all life on earth. This story of Bhurma Tuipui sheds some light on the deep-rooted water wisdom of the Hrangkhawl community, based on its traditional ecological knowledge and practices.