“Our entire house washed away and we stood there, helpless and handcuffed witnessing the commotion as it unfolded on our last piece of land which stood for generations” Within 25 years of freedom, who knew India was planning to build a barrage across the Ganges river that would lead to migration, poverty, unemployment, landlessness, conflict, crime & border dispute the same way when India got partitioned in 1947 but the only difference this time was – the Barrage gave birth to a “slow violence” that was neither magnificent nor immediate rather cumulative, whose catastrophic repercussions were delayed for years and decades to be noticeable. Over the last three decades more than 1000 Sq. km of land has been eroded in the Malda & Murshidabad districts of West Bengal - swallowing countless homes, mango orchards, high schools, hospitals, paddy fields, homesteads, and markets. Displacing millions of people who are being forced into repeated internal migration from 2 to a maximum of 17 times. Soil erosion and floods are becoming more extreme and unpredictable. Farmlands are pregnant with silt, livestock is lost. People have been forced to dismantle their houses brick by brick, with no land to go, people bargain their lives repeatedly along the banks. Some people choose to migrate to stuffed cities and get lost in the bonds of bonded labourers while others re-built everything from scratch. With no money people are compelled to build their homes from bamboo, straw & corrugated iron, moving from one field to another patch of land until they are soaked to death. The slow & steady riverbank erosion has not only given birth to a class of environmental refugees but also have denied the right to rehabilitation which evokes questions of disconnection and exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and of people who are marginalized, disempowered, & often involuntarily displaced, while fuelling social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining conditions erode