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An outdoor study centre at Namu Jamdoba village near Asansol, West Bengal.

The 3G teacher of Namo Jamdoba

In Deepnarayan Nayak’s free school for underprivileged children in West Bengal’s Namo Jamdoba, mud walls serve as blackboards and roads as classrooms.
Sudip Maiti

The hungry river

Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
Sudip Maiti
Lalpur in West Bengal was badly eroded in October 2021. Thirty-six families became homeless when a 300-metre long road and six houses were washed away.

The hungry river in West Bengal eats up homes overnight

Villages in Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion.
Sudip Maiti
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