The Undocumented – Nidhi Dugar Kundalia (Hardcover)

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In 2009 Cyclone Aila destroyed Safrat’s land, livestock and livelihood in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans. Facing slow ruin at home, she crossed into India with her two children, Nur and Nabeel. In Kolkata the family hid their names, their religion and their past to survive, while the strain of the new life tested the bonds between them.

Writer Nidhi Dugar Kundalia spent thirteen years doing fieldwork on the edges of a Kolkata slum, earning the trust of the people who live there. The result is an intimate work of narrative non-fiction about why people leave home, how they cross into an unfamiliar country and how they try to build a life without papers.