River Traveller: Hazarika brings alive the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra ecosystem

by Sanjoy Hazarika Published by Speaking Tiger 400 pages ?899 How do you tell the story of a river that originates in Tibet, flows through Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, then journeys across Bangladesh, and empties itself eventually into the Bay of Bengal? It is not an easy task but veteran journalist Sanjoy Hazarika takes on the challenge with his book River Traveller, a chronicle of his travels on and along “the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra”. He is not an aloof commentator. There is a personal, intimate connection with the river. As the founder of the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research,…