Thirteen years after his first visit, wildlife biologist Reza Khan returned to Adampur Reserved Forest in Moulvibazar as part of a survey to update Bangladesh's Faunal Red List. The gibbons still called from the canopy and the dwarf kingfishers still haunted the forest streams, but one quiet absence, the near disappearance of the forest's once abundant tree ferns, hinted at a slower, harder-to-notice kind of change.

Every October, men from villages on the edge of the Sundarbans leave for the brickfields, driven out as much by the forest's shrinking rules as by the pull of wages. Left behind, women like Nirmola and Shushila don't simply wait—they run the household, manage money sent home by bKash, and reorganise daily life until April brings the men back. This is the untold half of the Sundarbans migration story.

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