It is often said that if we hurt Mother Nature, we end up hurting ourselves. This saying could not be truer than in the case of Chattogram, the commercial capital of Bangladesh, during monsoons, when it goes under water for the most part.
Babun Das, a farmer from Barailia union under Chattogram’s Patiya upazila, had to face serious trouble to access water for crops as the Chankhali canal, located near his paddy field, was filled up.