In 2005, I photographed life in villages along the porous border between India and Bangladesh for The Times. I worked with journalist Raekha Prasad, and we travelled to In 2005, I photographed life in villages along the porous border between India and Bangladesh for The Times. I worked with journalist Raekha Prasad, and we travelled to several villages along the border with India’s Border Security Force. The governments of the two countries were busy with power politics; there was little concern for misery among the poor and farming communities in the border areas. At that time, about 100,000 Indian citizens lived and farmed on a 150-yard patch of land hugging the international border known officially as the zero line. Although Bangladeshis and Indians along the border lived cheek-by-jowl for decades and shared the Bengali language and culture, they were suspicious of each other and strained relations. The poor suffer the most in any conflict, and that’s what was happening then, too.
