People's Archive of Rural India Hunting for crabs in the shadow of the Bengal tiger Pushed deeper into the mangrove forests, fisherwomen in the Sundarbans work in constant fear of tigers
People's Archive of Rural India ‘Maach (fishing) and chaash (cultivation) brought us to Sundarbans’ Flood, famine, Partition, riots, and the promise of land and jobs drove early migrations to the Sundarbans. The settlers then battled disease, hunger and attacks by tigers, but eventually found a home
People's Archive of Rural India From river to plate: the journey of the Sundarbans tiger prawn For village women in the Sundarbans, collecting tiger prawn seedlings is unrewarding and unsavoury work – though the delicacy fetches high prices for others later along the supply chain
People's Archive of Rural India A right to fish, a fight to live “Why confiscate the canoes and hurt us in the stomach?"