Odyssey “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

'Bhangon', The erosion of the Teesta

BANGLADESH | Sunday, 7 July 2013 | Views [857]

Swept into uncertainty - A woman engages in her routine brooming of the backyard, with the hope in her heart that tomorrow her homestead survives the violent riverbank erosion of the Teesta, in the massively affected Choyghoria village in Gaibandha district, Bangladesh.

Tags: river, erosion, bangladesh, teesta

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Clear-cutting the timberland - Villagers cut down the bamboo forests and other trees on the eroding riverbanks, and take away the timber to build huts or put it to commercial use, before the river devours their fertile agricultural lands and crops.

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Odyssey “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

'Bhangon', The erosion of the Teesta

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