Dancing with the river
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 04/07/2013

In this video Dr Kuntala Lahiri Dutt from the Crawford School of Public Policy in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific discusses life on South Asia's chars - the part land, part water, low lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the flood plains of lower Bengal.

Lahiri-Dutt's research - which incorporated time on 11 chars - has led to a new book 'Dancing with the river', co-authored with Gopa Samanta from the University of Burdwan.

Dancig with the river is available from Yale University.

For more stories about environment and resource management in Asia and the Pacific visit crawford.anu.edu.au