Riverlands Tapi is a long-form photo book project that traces the 724-kilometer journey of the Tapi River from its mouth in Gujarat to its origin in Madhya Pradesh. By inverting the river's flow, the project becomes an introspective act of tracing memory, lineage, and geographic identity. The river’s path parallels my family’s generational movement across central India, exploring how waterways shape and are shaped by human life through myth, industry, and daily persistence. The book is structured around text-image sequences and site-specific chapters, combining personal reflections with historical fragments and quiet observations of the Tapi basin. Rather than a purely documentary reportage, it functions as a visual and textual recognition of the river's enduring presence in my life and the surrounding landscapes. Each chapter unfolds like a sediment of history, capturing encounters with livelihoods and urban fragments that define this vital body of water and passage.