The Great Wall of India- Slate Magazine

India is fencing off its border with Bangladesh. What will that mean for millions of potential climate refugees? - By Bidisha Banerjee - Slate Magazine: "An 8-foot-high, double-walled, barbed-wire fence draped with laundry menaces the border between Sutia, India, and Dhannokulla, Bangladesh. But if I wanted to cross from Sutia to Dhannokulla last week, I wouldn't have needed to jump the fence—I could have just walked through a friendly neighbor's garden. As I watched, a border-infiltrating chicken did just that, bypassing what the press has dubbed the Great Wall of India. In fits and starts since the mid-1980s, New Delhi has raised a fence along roughly 70 percent of India's 2,544-mile border with Bangladesh. (Another 621 miles, running across the delta's shifting rivers, are unfenceable but patrolled. ) But while both governments have agreed to a 150-yard 'no-man's-land' on either side of the border, many houses have a front door in one country and a back door in the other."