Photo Essay: Where the river flows 4 Photos . Updated: 27 Mar 2015, 08:39 PM IST Livemint How the Farakka Barrage obstructs the natural course of the Ganga, has become a dumping ground for the silt, and created a new tribe of people who are environmental refugees 1/4Photographs by Arati Kumar-Rao. Erosion has damaged a school building on the banks of the Ganga in Murshidabad, West Bengal 2/4These paddy fields in Manikchak, West Bengal, are at the front line of erosion. 3/4A family of ‘beedi’-makers in Panchanandapur, West Bengal 4/4Ahmed Raza shows his train ticket, he’s moving to Mumbai from Palash Gachhi on the Jharkhand-West Bengal border