... animals so much that they are willing to kill us for them. Kusum's anguished question sent the former Marxist's head reeling, and without giving any reply he lay down on a mat. In the Sundarbans, Ghosh argues, human lives are valued less than those of tigers. Nirmal desperately wanted to be a part of the ... but possesses more knowledge of the rivers and wildlife of the Sundarbans than all the outsiders who do not understand him. Piya and Fokir are as different as two such persons could be persons who cannot exchange a word with each other and have no idea of what is going on in one an...

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