“Ground Report: Unfenced Indo-Bangla Border, Aggressive Bangladesh Border Guards, and Smugglers & Traffickers”, Swarajyamag, January 10, 2025:
“The Kodalia river, like many others of its ilk, knows no man-made boundaries and flows freely between India and Bangladesh, entering one country and exiting another in an assertion of nature’s whims.
The river, as arbitrarily deemed by British lawyer Cyril Radcliffe (who infamously drew the boundary between India and Pakistan), also forms the international border along two of its stretches.
One such ‘riverine border’ is a 4.8 km stretch of the river along Ranghat, a modest-sized village in Bagdah administrative block of North 24 Parganas district…….”
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