Kolkata, Feb. 15 -- The iconic cultural venue Rabindra Sadan located at the heart of central Kolkata witnessed the first global screening of the environmental documentary "Code Red: The Sunderbans", helmed by Suman Mukhopadhyay and conceived by environmental journalist Joydeep Thakur.
It tells the story of the nearly five million people who call the Sundarbans home, a landscape globally romanticised for its tigers, yet grievously overlooked for its human tragedy.
Rather than relying on dramatic narration or overwhelming data, the film lets the people speak. A farmer describes watching saltwater creep into his fields after every cyclone. It listens to children who have grown up measuring time not by school terms, but by the storms that sha...