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WHERE IS MY HOME?
6 mins /Bengali with English subtitles/ 2008

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

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home in the island of Ghoramara, as it was sinking. Her new home in the neighboring Sagar island, is also being rampaged by the pounding Bay of Bengal.

Her future is uncertain. She is another environmental migrant, like the thousands before her, who is vulnerable and powerless against the fury of the sea.

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Director: Krishnendu Bose
Camera :Sayak Bhattacharya