The Breakdown of the Padma River

WHAT IT SHOWS: This Padma is not the river they know. At Naria of Shariatpur, 20km from the Padma Bridge construction site, it has changed abruptly for sure. Once relatively calm and quiet in the area, it turned into an all-devouring river in just a few years. People there are on edge as the Padma changed its course and has been gobbling up village after village, making many well-off people penniless overnight. Over the last few months alone, more than 4,000 families of five unions of Naria upazila have lost their homes.