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No land to call their own, migrants and elephants coexist on a transient landscape
Fifty-seven-year-old Budharu Muhammed recalls a time when bombs, shells and ammunition flowed down the Teesta towards Premganj char, a sandbar settlement around 15 km from Jalpaiguri town in West Bengal. It was 2023, when a massive glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) from South Lhonak Lake in the Sikkim Himalayas caused a major surge in the […]
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