Poet and writer Ishor Dulon Roy, author of Teestar Kanna, told The Daily Star that many of his relatives live on the Teesta shoal. Once they were all rich, all now lost to the river erosion.

DNCC’s indiscriminate dumping of waste on the banks of Turag River is inexcusable

It is a tragic irony that riverine Bangladesh has become the land of dying rivers.