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That girl before Aila – Through the eyes of a child in the Sundarbans

17 Tuesday Jun 2014

Posted by Deboshri Paul in culture, eco-responsible, Fiction, landscapes, people, photography, travel, Uncategorized, Wanderlust, West Bengal

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Aila tore the island up. She roared and worked her way through till her guttural growls deafened the island, felled trees, snatched at the thatched roofs. The government had not yet installed any electric poles. May be this was the good that was to come of it. None to be uprooted – nobody electrocuted.

Battling the tides... Sundarbans

Battling the tides… Sundarbans

She’d been born of the ocean a few days back, visions of the distant hapless islands fuelling her with speed whilst she eyed the lands viciously, almost savagely. She entered Bengal with a screaming howl, flattening everything and claiming all those piteous mounds of earths back – 20 feet of brackish water swirling through the villages and jungles of Sundarbans. Continue reading →

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