“On land a tiger, in the water a crocodile” (dangay bagh, jale kumir), a much livelier version of our “Between a rock and a hard place” or even “Scylla and Charybdis,” is an old Bengali saying about the dangers of the Sundarbans (“beautiful forests” or “mangrove forests”). This is an area of swamps and wild, […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/05/11/of-crocodiles-and-kings-needle-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea/