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They are neither land nor water. Predictable nor permanent. They emerge, they submerge. They give, they take back. River islands (chars) live suspended in the alluvion braids of mighty rivers. #rivers #riverdiaries #brahmaputra
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I asked Abdul bhai who was on the boat with me: where is your land? Your char? He laughed: we are sitting on my land. he pointed to the river below us. More --> #riverdiaries http://riverdiaries.tumblr.com/post/88677396762/shifting-sands-shifting-lives-t
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100 year old Mangal Chandra Dass lives by a road now, his char (sandbar island) lost to a fickle #Teesta. on assignment #rivers #riverdiaries #brahmaputra #bangladesh
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A bloody line runs between them. A bloodline runs through them. Separated by whimsical boundaries, families from India and Bangladesh meet across a fence to exchange news. #riverdiaries
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Portrait of a lady. Had to share this grab off my camera's LCD. She was all grace and beauty: sitting quietly cleaning a small handful of thin river fish. Her village has fallen upon tough times with the drying of the #teesta On assignment #rivers #rive
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You are not supposed to be able to *walk* across the Mighty #teesta river. but now, for 10 months of the year, you can. And this dry river is an ominous sign for 21 million people who depend upon it in #bangladesh ... On assignment #rivers #riverdiaries #
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River people, left high and dry (literally) by water politics. On assignment #teesta #bangladesh #riverdiaries #rivers #brahmaputra
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Just before climbing into a dugout to cross the #Teesta, i turned around to see this. On assignment #rivers #riverdiaries #brahmaputra #fishermen #artisanalfishing #bangladesh
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They store fish in a hollowed out gourd! Found it most intriguing. On assignment #teesta #artisanalfishing #riverdiaries #rivers #brahmaputra #fishermen
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It used to never go dry like this, they say. On board a dugout at a sandbar island that pokes out of a shallow #teesta - one of too many. On assignment #riverdiaries #rivers #brahmaputra
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Along the #teesta it's paddy harvesting time. Pots boil paddy before it is spread out to dry (above) in each village. On assignment #riverdiaries #rivers #brahmaputra
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A wet drizzly day in #bangladesh as i head up 300KM towards the India border. On assignment #riverdiaries #brahmaputra
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