Justice
Hope for a Better Life on the India-Bangladesh Border
A historic agreement in 2015 was supposed to bring 162 isolated villages into the modern world. A lot of them are still waiting.
In a large wire-fenced enclosure in West Bengal, India, 75 tin houses stand in neat, tight rows. The doors are flung open, clothes are hung out to dry, and most of the residents perch on small verandas in the front.
Sapikul Kandahar crouches to get a manual cooking stove to work, while the other members of his family huddle around him to watch. It is November 25, their second day here. The previous morning, they’d packed their lives into steel boxes and hopped on a bus that, eight hours later, dropped them here.