Sundarbans

I recently read Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and I was glad that I did. I had visited the Sundarbans in Jan this year and the book simply added a magical quality to the place. The different moods of the rivers, the islands totally at the mercy of nature, the hardworking fisherfolk, the bhotbhoti and the saga of Bon Bibi, all seemed so real, and all because I was right there, feeling the breeze tugging my hair, smelling the salty air, peering into the pitch black night and marveling at the mangroves.