The plans are ambitious: a mega-port and associated urban development project on the largely untouched Nicobar Islands. In light of the threats to global shipping, India aims to create its own hub for trade and defense. Critics are outraged, calling it destruction disguised as development.
Bidyut tells the story about how the river has expanded by a third since he was a child. And the heavy rainfall he has seen lately is more than he has ever experienced before. He lives in the middle of Sundarban, a gigantic river delta that stretches across both sides of the Bangladeshi and Indian border. In recent years, the river has grown a third wider than when Bidyut was a child, and the rains are only getting heavier.
