The climate refugees: Sundarban seas sink islands, render people homeless

Over the past five decades, at least four islands - Lohacara, Bedford, Kabasgadi and Suparibhanga-have completely disappeared

About three years ago when Sabina woke up one morning to see her farm disappear, it was no surprise to her. She had been anticipating this for long. The swelling river first washed away her land, then her home at Ghoramara, the sinking island of the Sundarbans.    

After the deluge, Sabina and her family were forced to move to a mud house in the nearby Sagar Island, the putative refugee capital of the Sundarbans. In the absence of any employment opportunities in the area, Sabina’s husband migrated to Kerala to work as a construction worker. Then, last year, Sabina’s