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Sagar Island, India – In April last year, 17-year-old Rani Khatun, a resident of Sagar Island in the Sundarbans, would spend most of her day in school, preparing for the upcoming board exams. She wanted to be a teacher one day. Less than a year later, Khatun is a school dropout and a victim of domestic violence after a forced underage marriage. Sundarbans, the world’s biggest delta, is a 10,000 sq km (6,213 sq miles) dense forest of tidal mangroves, straddling India’s eastern coastline and western Bangladesh, opening into the Bay of Bengal. Crisscrossed by rivers, it is home to nearly 4.5 million people on the Indian side, with a large part of its population being subsistence farmers, dependent on fishing, paddy and betel leaf cultivation, and honey collection. ....
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Heat: Hacker hacked! Former MD & CEO Raheja QBE General Insurance Co. Ltd., Praveen is a recognised thought leader. For over 40 years he has been a freelance writer with a history of long association with the TOI. He wrote several features all through the 1980s for TOI Ahmedabad edition - ranging from Art, History, Archaeology, Wildlife, Sports. Also authored a few Middle Columns for the TOI. Praveen’s current focus areas are Climate Change and Diversity, in particular. He also writes on insurance industry / financial services related commentaries. LESS. MORE ‘The warmth we’ve added to the atmosphere – the heat equivalent, each day, of 400,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs – is already producing truly dire effects, decades or centuries ahead’, says eminent environmentalist Bill McKibben. So let us briefly review the consequences of this bombing particularly for India. ....