The Great Wall of India

April 8, 2015 7:29 AM

Cattle-smuggling and other oddities of life on the India-Bangladesh frontier.
posted by Chrysostom (3 comments total)

How else will you arrest the inevitable mass migration of millions of Bangladeshis as their country slowly sinks over the next century?
posted by Renoroc at 10:41 AM on April 8, 2015 [1 favorite]

The British knew how to do it, with the great Salt Hedge.
posted by fredludd at 2:52 PM on April 8, 2015

That was a fascinating article. All the mini-enclaves! The keen understanding of nationalism (the cows and the liquor, specifically). The sad stories of the people trapped in no man's land (although WTF author, six sad stories are too much for you in one day? what about the people living them!).

Quite a cast of characters and it sounds like Modi will do just as much harm and help as the last hundred years of rulers have done.
posted by librarylis at 6:42 PM on April 8, 2015