Gadwal - A short visual narrative of the town submerged in a climate catastrophe Arundhathi Padmanabhan Preview Have you ever thought of a climate apocalypse? Have you ever thought of the politics of climate change and the inlaid irreversible harm it inflicts on Third World countries. The potential of climate shifts on a small or continuous range can eventually lead to larger and discontinuous changes in the lives of people outside the privileged strata of the society. Climate change is real and is happening now and capitalism holds the larger responsibility of the event. Let’s look at a small fictional town in India that faced a flash flood. The interactive fiction takes the readers to different lives “dead and alive”, affected “directly or indirectly”due to the disaster. The fiction communicates through different forms of letters which unfolds through audios, photographs and artworks. The fiction also utilised animation for enhanced representation. The fiction actively navigates through elements of memory, grief, love and trauma which creates an ‘affective’ interactive climate fiction. Experiments with multimodality and subaltern experiences in climate fiction is a growing area in the field of humanities and literature that expands the scope of interdisciplinarity. Author Profile Ms Arundhathi Padmanabhan is a Research scholar in the Department of English, Ashoka University whose research thesis primarily focuses on Indian Climate poetry and the psychoterratic imperatives in them. Her interest areas also include spatiality studies, literature(s) of resistance and film studies. GO TO WORK