Over skies of extraction

Abstract

In the 2017 TM Krishna classical recital for the Ennore Creek Campaign, titled Chennai Poromboke Paadal, translating from Tamil as the Chennai Poromboke song, T.M. Krishna recited in Carnatic classical style, a song for the common lands1. The song explores the transformation in the meaning of the word Poromboke from common lands to waste lands – from how the commons transformed perceptually and materially to a surface of toxic space, expelled and demonized as waste