A Four-Hour Durational Performance at Hyderabad Literary Art Festival. This performance explored the folklore of Hyderabad while questioning the current state of the Musi River. Once a lifeline of the city, the Musi was home to rich ecosystems and cultural traditions. Among them was Bathukamma, a festival where women would gather at the river, offering floral arrangements and prayers for well-being.Today, the Musi is heavily polluted, filled with sewage and waste, losing its identity as a sacred river. In response to this, I performed a four-hour durational piece at the Hyderabad Literary Art Festival. I created a large charcoal drawing (10 feet by 27 feet), showing the past life of the Musi, the people, nature, and traditions that once flourished around it. But as the drawing took shape, it also revealed the harsh reality of the present, where the river is no longer a place of worship but one of decay.As part of the performance, local women of Hyderabad sang the traditional Bathukamma songs, just as they once did by the river. But this time, instead of celebrating life, their voices became a farewell, as they placed the Bathukamma flowers not in the river, but on the drawing itself. This act turned the artwork into a symbolic grave, mourning the loss of the Musi.