THE story starts from a place, not far from the skies, from the height of the Himalayas, down the Ganges across Northern India to the Bay of Bengal to an archipelago of mangrove forests. To islands that rise and sink with the ebb and tide of the sea.

In Sundarban, the islands, everything can appear and disappear where man has no choice but to share and live together with tigers, crocodiles, sharks, and dolphins in a big, complex ecosystem. Man is