Entries Tagged as ‘village life’

November 22, 2009

Bangladesh waters: too much, too little

It is four months since I first travelled to Char Atra, a low-lying sand island of thatched huts, paddy fields and banana trees, in the middle of the Ganges.
It is in southern Bangladesh, one of the regions of the world considered most vulnerable to climate change.
I found that the people living there have a stark [...]

November 16, 2009

Shushuk spotted!

I’ve been tied up for the past few days editing (and re-editing) a TV feature on climate change, after filming again on the river island in the Ganges that I visited a few months ago. The idea then was to see how the islanders were preparing for the terrible floods which come each year (and [...]