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The ‘tiger widows’ of Sundarbans: Caught between the jungle and the rising sea -Uzmi Athar

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published Published on Oct 30, 2022   modified Modified on Oct 31, 2022

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The ‘tiger widows’ of Sundarbans: Caught between the jungle and the rising sea

Sundarbans: With both his sons jobless and money running out, Biswajit Mistry left home one summer morning to venture deep into the dense jungles of the Sundarbans in search of raw honey that would fetch a better price. His body was recovered two days later, mauled and bearing unmistakable signs of a tiger attack.

More than a year on, his wife mourns the unhappy collision of circumstances that led her 68-year-old husband quite literally into the jaws of death – climate change that turned the waters saline, making agriculture unviable, shrinking tiger habitat in the ecologically fragile region and the Covid aftermath that robbed her children of their work.     “My husband went so deep into the jungle to earn more. My sons are migrant workers and they had to return from Chennai during the pandemic after losing their jobs. It was becoming very difficult to support the family. Their father went without telling anyone so that he could collect honey to sell in the market,” Lakshmi told PTI.

The 52-year-old, who has joined the rank of the marshland’s ‘tiger widows’ with her husband’s tragic death,  said he left his home in the Sundarbans’ Kakmari village to go into the restricted Marichjhapi jungle, home to many tigers, to collect better quality raw honey.

“It is believed the deeper you go into the jungle, the purer is the honey you get,” Biswajit’s son, 24-year-old Somitra Mistry, said.

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