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Ishita Chakraborty art captures the invisible lives of women of Sundarbans

Songs Of the Sea: Artist Captures Ephemeral Multiplicity Of Sundarbans

Ishita Chakraborty's solo exhibition 'Sleeping in the Bed of Salt’ is an open-ended take on the interconnectedness of environmental, social and political justice in the Sundarbans of West Bengal and highlights the region's...

24 September 2023

On Sagar island, Saheb Dalui walks along a man-made seawall

Sundarban – A Disaster Unfolding At Many Levels

From cyclonic devastation in a matter of an hour to multiple impacts of prolonged exposure to high salinity, Sundarbans faces a range of threats from climatic changes 

28 February 2023

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West Bengal Tourism: 10-Day Durga Puja Package And A Trip To The Sundarbans

They also aim to launch tourism circuits along the river to boost tourism.

01 September 2022

Increasing tiger-human conflict in the Sundarbans | Credit: WikiCommons

WB Minister Contests Central Data, Says Number Of Tigers In Sundarbans Must Be Over 100

The report was released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a mega event organised in Mysuru to mark the completion of 50 years of Project Tiger on Sunday. Chief Wildlife Warden Debal Roy, who is currently in Mysuru, also...

10 April 2023

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee Likely To Officially Announce 2 New Districts On Tuesday

The two districts are set to be carved out of South and North 24 Parganas districts, he said. "All the necessary work to create the two new districts has been completed. The CM is likely to announce the names tomorrow in...

28 November 2022

A newly trapped tigress wearing a Radio Collar, getting released at Pirkhali Forest block in Sundarb

Nine Deaths In Six Months: Human-Tiger Conflict Continues To Kill In The Sundarbans

Over three dozen tiger-related deaths have been recorded in the Sundarbans in West Bengal since April 2020. In almost all cases, attacks occurred while fishing on riverbanks adjacent to reserve forests.

15 June 2022

Fragmented Life 4: Artwork by Anjan Modak

Married Migrants And The Women 'Left Behind': India's Unseen Migration Stories

In India, migration studies focus on economic aspects and tend to ignore the lived loneliness, experiential hardships and unacknowledged unpaid labour of women.

30 March 2023

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WB Forest Department Aims To Release 2nd Batch Of Endangered Turtles With GPS Tags 

WB Forest Department Aims To Release 2nd Batch Of Endangered Turtles With GPS Tags 

This exercise will provide basic ecological data on the conservation requirements for the forest department, officials said

21 January 2022

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03 September 2021
Sundarbans Struggles Under Waves Of Cyclones, Storm Surges

Sundarbans Struggles Under Waves Of Cyclones, Storm Surges

Devastating storm surges, increasing salinity, slow death of fishing and distressed inhabitants desperately bent on migration—the Sundarbans are in the last,...


19 March 2021
Oldest Stripes

Oldest Stripes

Amitav Ghosh versifies the oldest tale of the Sundarbans in a magnificently illustrated volume


29 September 2019
In Sundarbans, Rajib Naskar Risks His Life To Prevent Man-Tiger Conflicts

In Sundarbans, Rajib Naskar Risks His Life To Prevent Man-Tiger Conflicts

Driven by unfathomable poverty and need, the villagers living near the Sundarbans often illegally venture into the forests to fish and catch crabs, becoming...


24 March 2018
The Subcontinental Menu

The Subcontinental Menu

Anti-biotics abuse in poultry farms push players to order eggs from Japan; Haryana's cloning success story. Read all the juicy gossip here...


06 January 2018
Graveyard Of A Land

Graveyard Of A Land

An insatiable sea licks away the Sunderbans, leaving lakhs of lives at water’s edge


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