Tigers, sea, and politics: the many conflicts of the Sundarbans

The area, characterised by riverine creeks, mangrove forests, and royal Bengal tigers, has a population of 4.5 million people. The human-animal, human-environment and human-to-human conflict across different regions of the delta keeps the area vulnerable to climate change and on edge. The women face the brunt of it all, finds Shiv Sahay Singh