Journeying the Brahmaputra: What it means to be completely at the mercy of the river

Author and journalist Sanjoy Hazarika speaks to Samrat Choudhury about his book, River Traveller:Journeys On The Tsangpo-Brahmaputra From Tibet To The Bay Of Bengal.

Together they trace the 2,900-kilometre journey of the Brahmaputra, from the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet to the Bay of Bengal, as Hazarika reflects on travelling across high plateaus and floodplains, filming in Tibet in 1998, encounters with river dolphins, and even a tense moment being chased by pirates in the Bay of Bengal. The conversation also looks at geopolitics, China’s dam-building ambination, climate change, ecology, and even the migration and citizenship debates in Assam.