Ramesh Raju stood near his banana plantation and looked at the scene after Cyclone Arnab’s catastrophic visit to his farm. The entire plantation had been blown down by the howling gale that heralded Arnab. The destruction was both sculptural and spectral, with the pseudo-stems all snapped at the same height. Forty-five-year-old Ramesh Raju is a tenant farmer from Khandavalli village in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, cultivating six acres—about two acres each of paddy, ba