 In my book, I have talked about Bengal in South Asia. Bengal is a geographical unity, a geographical entity surrounded by mountains on the three side and just on the north of to the north of Bay of Bengal. So, in my book, when I use Bengal, I mean both Bangladesh and West Bengal. Chores are little river islands, little pieces of land floating or inhabiting the space within the two banks of a river. So, in a way, they are land because they are with the pieces of land made of sand and silt, but at the same time they are known land because they are within the river. So, Bengal was like an environmental laboratory, big laboratory where they were trialing all these high modernist ideas of controlling nature, controlling rivers, water engineering, river engineering. Water planners looked at the rivers and thought that these rivers are bringing down water, but actually these rivers are bringing as much sediment as they are bringing down water and they started to build these embankments which led to postcolonial dams and led to the formation of these chores. A chore can disappear overnight when the flood water rises. People are ready with their little boats and their entire households in their boats, their lives assets. The people who live in on chores are absolutely poor, you know, wretched of the earth. They live for the day, ready to leave their homes anytime. Chores will come appear and you want to stabilize it, it will go away on its own next, you know, tomorrow. They do not believe in controlling nature and that is the essence of my book, Dancing with the River. They dance with the river. As the river rises and falls, they step up and step down and they dance with the river, matching with the river's tune. Chores and chore people are examples that people can live with nature. Even when the nature is not necessarily a benign nature, it is making people vulnerable, making people very poor. But it also makes people very resilient to these changes, sudden changes. While my study is located on 11 chores, so it is a very microscopic study. Microscopic study looking into how even how people spend their monies. So, what we did is we kept financial diaries, people looking at how people spend their monies over a period of, you know, different season, over a period of one year in different seasons, because there are, you know, peak seasons and lean season. And surprisingly, the lean season is the monsoon season. When rest of Bengal, for rest of Bengal, that is the peak season. And for chore people, the peak season is during winter. When rest of Bengal is not farming and for them, it is the lean season. In the chores, there are two communities. One community was more Bihari community, who were fishermen. And they gradually, their livelihoods become defunct and irrelevant as the water in the river went down, decreased, the river flow decreased due to dam construction. So, they left and in their place, Hindu migrants from Bangladesh came and settled. So, in my book, there is a little bit of on that migration story and the partition of India and how Bangladeshi Hindus are migrating and coming into the chores. It was a lot of fun doing the research, actually. So, new way of looking at the world, new way of thinking about environment.