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Life versus Livelihood: Is there any Choice?

By Dayabati Roy | May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 by Dayabati Roy

The same question haunts the people, who live in Kolkata slums as well as in the Indian Sundarbans: how do we save our lives without protecting our livelihoods? They are asking this question at a moment when the government prioritizes the life over livelihood as part of combatting measures against the Covid-19 advising the people…

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Voices from the Sundarbans – “Why don’t we have any forest right?”

By cfab8v | October 5, 2018March 18, 2019 by cfab8v

This pertinent question has recently been raised during an informal discussion with the author by an activist leader of Sundarban Jana shramajeebi Mancha, an NGO working at the margins in the Sundarbans region since 2006. The year 2006 is quite significant for the life and livelihood of the forest-dependent communities in India as in the…