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River Traveller - Journeys on the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra from Tibet to the Bay of Bengal
402 pages, Paperback
Published October 25, 2025
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February 23, 2026
The River Traveller – Sanjoy Hazarika
(Journeys on the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra from Tibet to Bengal)
In this river travelogue, journalist Sanjoy Hazarika traces the path of Brahmaputra from its source in the glaciers of Western Tibet for a film that he was making with the well known film maker Jahnu Barua. The team travels from Tibet following the course of Yarlung Tsangpo (as Brahmputra is known in Tibet) to India (Gelling is the first village in India where Tsangpo enters Arunachal Pradesh and is now known as Siang on Dibang) From Arunachal it flows into Assam where it then is called the Brahmaputra and then to Bangladesh where, as Padma it finally merges into the Indian Ocean. The powerful and mysterious Brahmaputra travels over 2,900 kms, - as one of the world’s longest and widest rivers carrying in its volume a huge amount of silt, contributing in a large part to the Sunderbans Delta..which in turn is the world’s largest delta. As Hazarika travels with the river in Tibet, Arunachal, Assam and Bangladesh in a variety of river vessels (ferries, small dugouts, rubber dinghies and country boats), he makes historical connections with conquerors and colonialists, studies natural disasters, comments on our carelessness towards the fragile ecology and studies the life of the people living along the banks of the river. The book beautifully brings out the role the river plays in the existence of people along its banks and even further. If rivers and their story fascinate you, then you must go for this well-paced narrative which paints a rich and colourful pen portrait of one of the mightiest rivers of our planet.
https://www.nearchive.in/neiavavideos...
This links to an edited peek into the river documentary made by the team.
(Journeys on the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra from Tibet to Bengal)
In this river travelogue, journalist Sanjoy Hazarika traces the path of Brahmaputra from its source in the glaciers of Western Tibet for a film that he was making with the well known film maker Jahnu Barua. The team travels from Tibet following the course of Yarlung Tsangpo (as Brahmputra is known in Tibet) to India (Gelling is the first village in India where Tsangpo enters Arunachal Pradesh and is now known as Siang on Dibang) From Arunachal it flows into Assam where it then is called the Brahmaputra and then to Bangladesh where, as Padma it finally merges into the Indian Ocean. The powerful and mysterious Brahmaputra travels over 2,900 kms, - as one of the world’s longest and widest rivers carrying in its volume a huge amount of silt, contributing in a large part to the Sunderbans Delta..which in turn is the world’s largest delta. As Hazarika travels with the river in Tibet, Arunachal, Assam and Bangladesh in a variety of river vessels (ferries, small dugouts, rubber dinghies and country boats), he makes historical connections with conquerors and colonialists, studies natural disasters, comments on our carelessness towards the fragile ecology and studies the life of the people living along the banks of the river. The book beautifully brings out the role the river plays in the existence of people along its banks and even further. If rivers and their story fascinate you, then you must go for this well-paced narrative which paints a rich and colourful pen portrait of one of the mightiest rivers of our planet.
https://www.nearchive.in/neiavavideos...
This links to an edited peek into the river documentary made by the team.
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