From Kolkata to the bustling market town of Canning: an hour-long train journey in the women’s carriage. It is so cramped that no daylight makes it past the bodies pushed up against the windows. The screeching of women’s voices as they fight for an extra inch becomes almost deafening. Then, a perilous roof-top bus ride to Godkhali, the point where the roads end. There are no bridges across the wide expanse of river to Gosaba, the next island. Instead, local ferries transport people across. From here onwards there are only rivers and islands, and lives lived in a delicate balance between water and land. |
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