Why an artist turns to vanishing villages, river ghosts in Assam’s eroding landscape
[ad_1] In Upper Assam’s Rahmaria area in Dibrugarh district, the Brahmaputra river is central to people’s lives and imaginations. But since a massive earthquake in the region in 1950, Rahmaria has witnessed widespread river erosion, claiming several forests, paddy fields, villages, and shifting lands in its wake. There was also rampant militarisation in the early … Read more