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The place I have chosen is coastal chennai. The very construction of different parts of an extended coastline as a place is my own conceptualization. This is also echoed by environmental activists who see the coast as a particular type of ecological place where sand dunes, sea-water and fresh water exist in relation to one another. In their campaigns they show an understanding of the coast as a connected ecological zone, although it has distinct features at different points of the shoreline. For fishers who live and fish in the Bay of Bengal, the coast is not uniform everywhere.