In the last 15 years, sea levels have been rising in the Sunderbans in West Bengal. But in the last few, the intensity has grown. Oceanographers have measured a rise of about 3mm as against the global average of 2mm. Lohachaura and Suparibhanga, two islands in the delta, have been permanently lost to these rising waves. Many scientists have located this in the climate change process, which is threatening to sweep the Earth. They predict 100,000 people in these parts, affected over the next 15 years.
Our story is about Anjona, this 13-year-old girl, who defines the human face of this environmental disaster in the making. She and her family were forced to leave her