![]() ![]() It is an untamed area where the Ganga empties into the Bay, where there is no border to divide freshwater and salt, and the boundaries between land and water are always mutating, creating a diverse natural habitat where tigers and snakes, crocodiles and sharks roam free. For hundreds of years the foreigners-the Arakanese, the Khmer, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Malays, the English-have taken this eastern route to the Gangetic heartland. ![]() ![]() It is called ‘India’s doormat, the threshold of a teeming subcontinent’. Interposed between the sea and the plains of Bengal this archipelago stretches-for almost three hundred kilometers-from the Hooghly river in West Bengal to the shores of the Meghna in Bangladesh. “The islands are,” the novelist says, “the trailing threads of India’s fabric, the ragged fringes of her sari, the alcohol that follows her, half- wetted by the sea” Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago of hundreds of scattered islands, some densely populated while others completely uninhabited, at the mohona (confluence) of several rivers in the Bay of Bengal. Vaddeswaramĭivided into two broad sections: “The Ebb: Bhata” and “The Tide: Jowar,” The Hungry ![]() K L University Vinukonda, Guntur District, A P. Professor of English Lecturer in Englishįreshmen Engineering Department Govt. ![]()
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