This visualisation speaks to toxic politics of apathy or disregard of particular types of measures to protect citizens from the effects of flooding and water scarcity.
One way to potentially enrich the image would be to circle the politicians that are mentioned, or somehow make them visible, or annotate their appearance with relevant quotes or quotations of their failures in governance.
The image is from a newspaper article, so it is a found image.
The caption is quite brief and could be elaborated in different ways to extend the ethnographic message. It would be interesting to know more about the political situation that is described, as well as the place that is mentioned, Chennai. What is the extend of the flooding and the water scarcity, how many people are affected, what are their experiences? What is this ritual and how can we understand it in this context?
The visualisation shows us political leaders of an area experiencing both floodings and water shortages engaged in a ritual to address the water scarcity. The argument is that this amounts to political apathy, and we get a sense that this is all these leaders do in this regard.