Sitting on the Fence
In an attempt to shore up the porous 4,095-kilometre frontier it shares with Bangladesh, India is constructing a barbed-wire border fence to prevent smuggling and illegal immigration. But this poses problems for many Indian farmers, whose fields are sandwiched between the fence and the border itself – yet offers little security, as gaps in the unfinished barrier allow those on both sides to cross it at will, writes Richard Orange. Photographs by Julian Lass
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