Wetlands, tea gardens, river islands — and the world's rarest dolphins. Stories from Upper Assam and the Brahmaputra valley.
Growing up in Bordoloi Nagar, I didn't know the word "wetland." I just knew there was a place ten minutes from home where the world went quiet.
They arrived during the war. Four generations later, no one owns them. No one can.
The largest river island in the world loses land every monsoon. The monasteries have been here for 500 years.
The Allies built 1,736km of road through jungle in two years. The jungle has been reclaiming it ever since.