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Business News/ Photos / Photo Essay: Where the river flows

Photo Essay: Where the river flows

4 Photos . Updated: 27 Mar 2015, 08:39 PM IST Livemint

How the Farakka Barrage obstructs the natural course of the Ganga, has become a dumping ground for the silt, and created a new tribe of people who are environmental refugees

Photographs by Arati Kumar-Rao. Erosion has damaged a school building on the banks of the Ganga in Murshidabad, West Bengal

1/4Photographs by Arati Kumar-Rao. Erosion has damaged a school building on the banks of the Ganga in Murshidabad, West Bengal

These paddy fields in Manikchak, West Bengal, are at the front line of erosion.

2/4These paddy fields in Manikchak, West Bengal, are at the front line of erosion.

A family of ‘beedi’-makers in Panchanandapur, West Bengal

3/4A family of ‘beedi’-makers in Panchanandapur, West Bengal

Ahmed Raza shows his train ticket, he’s moving to Mumbai from Palash Gachhi on the Jharkhand-West Bengal border

4/4Ahmed Raza shows his train ticket, he’s moving to Mumbai from Palash Gachhi on the Jharkhand-West Bengal border

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