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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In the shade of the Great Shudder -Bitan Sikdar

In the shade of the Great Shudder -Bitan Sikdar

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published Published on Nov 13, 2022   modified Modified on Nov 16, 2022

-The Telegraph

Amphan changed the institutional knowledge of the Sunderbans folks. The Telegraph recounts how they lived the countdown to Cyclone Sitrang

Gobardhanpur: Shankar Das is taking stock of the luggage for the last time. Hurriedly, with fear-ridden eyes. Outside, the wind speed is changing. It will take time to reach the school building on the village outskirts. His family will accompany him. If it gets late, there might be no space for them at the Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan either. His neighbour Hari Santra has already left, the Mondals are still packing and the Hansdahs have set out for the shelters. Shankar’s 35-year-old son Bhola says, “The news said nothing would happen here. Still...”

Das doesn’t pay attention. Since May 20, 2020, he doesn’t take any chances whenever a storm is brewing. He says he saw “mahakal” and lived through it. The world knows it by the name of Amphan. Can anyone say for sure that Sitrang won’t be as bad?

The fear of a virus or a pandemic seems nothing in comparison to Amphan. Gobardhanpur took a great punch that fateful night. The village was among Amphan’s landfall zones. Nothing could withstand the impact except for a few coconut trees and shrubs. All the mud houses, including Shankar’s, were razed. Immediately after the cyclone, they claim, “saltwater rain” damaged the paddy fields and contaminated pond waters.

A cyclonic storm sweeps up seawater and sprays it onto the coastal villages. This is locally known as saltwater rain; it can kill vegetation, explains Ujjwal Sardar, who is researching the economic history of the Sunderbans.

“I could not reach the village by car as road connectivity was completely disrupted,” says Sardar. He continues, “Later, the villagers helped me get there on a scooty. It was a hellish sight. The leaves on trees had turned brown because of the saltwater rain,” remembers Sardar, who has always stood by the villagers of the Sunderbans in times of natural calamities.

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The Telegraph, 13 November, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/in-the-shade-of-the-great-shudder-amphan-changed-the-institutional-knowledge-of-the-sunderbans-folks/cid/1897798


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