To prevent flooding due to cyclone Amphan, villagers had built bunds using sandbags | Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
To prevent flooding due to cyclone Amphan, villagers had built bunds using sandbags | Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
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Sundarbans: It’s been five days since West Bengal was hit by cyclone Amphan. The 130-km stretch between Kolkata and the Sundarbans that is usually a feast for the eyes, with paddy fields, fish ponds and a lush green canopy, is now a wreck. Uprooted trees, mangled electric posts and flooded croplands are what one gets to see now.

ThePrint’s Madhuparna Das brings you some glimpses from the mangrove forest and the journey from Kolkata.

Villagers working on the breached embankment after Amphan | Photo: Manisha Mondal | ThePrint
A villager in the Sundarbans’ Jharkhali panchayat works on a breached embankment after Cyclone Amphan | Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
Hundreds of electric posts were uprooted pushing the village to into darkness | Photo: Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
Hundreds of electric posts were uprooted, leaving the village in darkness | Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
Sea water entered the villages, flooded the crop land, roads were still submerged under water | Photo: Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
Seawater entered the villages and flooded the cropland while it also left roads submerged | Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
Villagers are fishing on the land where they used to cultivate | Photo: Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
Villagers now fish on the land they used to cultivate | Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
Due to the rains, all stocked grains were drenched, the women are trying to dry these stocked food | Photo: Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
The heavy rain drenched all stocked grains. Women now try to dry these stocks | Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
Villagers working on their own to remove uprooted trees | Photo: Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
Villagers have rallied their folk to remove uprooted trees and repair the damage caused by the cyclone | Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
Local agencies trying to remove uprooted electric posts from road | Photo: Madhuparna Das | ThePrint
Local agencies are working to restore electric posts on the road | Madhuparna Das | ThePrint