Uncategorized Villagers in Bangladesh build ‘jungla dams’ using wood and bamboo to prevent land erosion Over the years, the Meghna river has eroded entire villages in Bangladesh. To arrest land erosion, villagers have built eco-embankments....
Reportage The ‘hanging village’ of Bangladesh: A glaring reminder of climate change refugees Bangladesh is a country that’s bearing the brunt of climate change. With cyclones and monsoon floods, the coastal villages in...
Reportage Monsoon floods submerge a third of Bangladesh; affect around 5 million people amid COVID-19 Bangladesh is no stranger to monsoon flooding, but the flooding this year has been the longest since the floods of...
Reportage From birth to death: Bangladesh’s landless Manta community survives on boats The Manta community of Bangladesh has been living on boats for over 100 years. They spend all their lives –...
Reportage Gutting stories of tiger widows, women who lost their husbands to Bengal tigers in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans Over 1,000 women in villages along the southwest coast of Bangladesh, adjoining the Sundarbans mangrove forest, are ostracised because their...
Reportage Uprooted by Cyclone Amphan, thousands of families in west coast of Bangladesh still displaced About two months back, on May 20, Super Cyclone Amphan crossed West Bengal-Bangladesh coasts causing extensive damages. Two months later,...
