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Ghoramara: A life beyond bare existence


Last year, around this time, in the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan, I had written in this column that crises bring us to crossroads where the choice is between doing things that were not considered earlier or were thought to be impossible, and trying to get back to the ‘before’. Every attempt to try and get back to the state we were in ‘before’ is a waste of the opportunities presented by a serious crisis.
The Telegraph on June 11 reported an attempt to do something different in the aftermath of Cyclone Yaas, supposedly a first. It seems that the state government of West Bengal has set in motion a process of rehabilitating hundreds of families that are perennially exposed to the vagaries of nature, starting with 35 families of Ghoramara island. State-facilitated movement away from Ghoramara on earlier occasions have not necessarily resulted in positive outcomes. ....

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