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Eco India: 'Tiger Widows' unite to protect the endangered Sundari tree
Directed for a story in Scroll's 'Eco India series' on the Tiger Widows of Sundarbans
Client: Scroll.in & DW
Direction: Anirban Dutta Gupta
Camera: Rupam Majumdar
Format: HD PAL
Duration: 14 Min
Date: 2021
Eco India is an online environmental video magazine curated by Scroll.in and DW. I directed the short documentary on a group of women from Sundarbans who have lost their husband to tiger attack. These 'Tiger Widows' as they are called have come together to form a self-help group to plant the indigenous and endangered Sundari tree - the tree from which Sundarban's gets its name. This has not only given them a focus and a livelihood, but has also helped stabilise the banks of the islands and withstand the devastating effects of vicious climate change driven cyclones.
Boat enters mangrove forest
Tiger widows
Island of Rajat Jubilee
Rajat Jubilee
Tiger widows heads out to fish
Tiger widows fishing
Tiger widows fishing
Tiger Widow
Puja offered to Bon Bibi
Bon Bibi temple
Tiger widoe
Heading to collect Sundari seed
tiger-widoes-05
Planting Sundari sapling
Tiger widow
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