Sidharth Mathawan Floats on Loktak

That is the Sendra Tourist Home, floating on a large Phumdi in Loktak lake, Manipur. A Phumdi, for the uninitiated is a floating mass of weeds, soil etc that is common to Loktak, India’s largest fresh water lake.

These Phumdi’s can range in length from a few meters to a few kilometers. In fact the Keibul Lamjao National Park, with an area of around 40 km2 is the largest of all the phumdis on the…