âGod played a cruel jokeâ: Cyclones have taken a toll on women in the Sundarbans
From losing family members to tiger attacks following cyclones to gradually losing their pisciculture business, they have suffered in almost every way possible.
Kousalya Mondal lost her husband and father-in-law to a tiger attack shortly after Cyclone Fani.
Sagarika Majhiâs life is punctuated by cyclones. Itâs how she divides her story into different chapters.
In 2010, Cyclone Aila devastated her village of Satjelia, lying in the centre of a ring of islands in West Bengalâs Sundarbans. Sagarika, 43, lost her farmland and ponds to the cycloneâs wrath and, as a result, her income from breeding catfish, parshe and tilapia.