The Indian poet, Bhupen Hazarika’s soul-stirring composition ‘O Ganga Boicho Keno (Oh Ganges, why do you flow?),’ inspired by Paul Robeson’s “Ol’ Man River”, plays as we see footage of communities facing irrecoverable loss of their homes, lands and assets by an aggressively advancing river.Women at the Water’s Edge is a film shot on Mousuni, one of the 54 inhabited islands of the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal, India. The Sundarbans forests of West Bengal have acted as a refuge, albeit an inhospitable one, to several political and ecological refugees for decades. The independence of Bangladesh resulted in displacing thousands of men and women who came to settle in the then forested regions.