A boy in Bangor village in Bihar's Saharsa district holds homemade lamps called dibiya in the local language. The make is similar to a Molotov cocktail. The village is on a large sand bar in the middle of the Kosi river. Over 100 villages in the the sand bar do not have power supply.
A boy in Bangor village in Bihar's Saharsa district holds homemade lamps called dibiya in the local language. The make is similar to a Molotov cocktail. The village is on a large sand bar in the middle of the Kosi river. Over 100 villages in the the sand bar do not have power supply.
A boy in Bangor village in Bihar's Saharsa district holds homemade lamps called dibiya in the local language. The make is similar to a Molotov cocktail. The village is on a large sand bar in the middle of the Kosi river. Over 100 villages in the the sand bar do not have power supply.
Logs that drift into the river from the Himalayan slopes in Nepal are collected by boatmen near the Kosi barrage. They are sold as fuelwood in nearby villages.
Logs that drift into the river from the Himalayan slopes in Nepal are collected by boatmen near the Kosi barrage. They are sold as fuelwood in nearby villages.
Logs that drift into the river from the Himalayan slopes in Nepal are collected by boatmen near the Kosi barrage. They are sold as fuelwood in nearby villages.
Logs that drift into the river from the Himalayan slopes in Nepal are collected by boatmen near the Kosi barrage. They are sold as fuelwood in nearby villages.
Logs that drift into the river from the Himalayan slopes in Nepal are collected by boatmen near the Kosi barrage. They are sold as fuelwood in nearby villages.
"It's ironic that sometimes we have to works as labourers on the same piece of land that has been allotted to us" - Ganesh Paswan, resident of Bargajwa village