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Another Bend in the RIVER

The Brahmaputra carries down into the plains enormous amounts of sediment from the Himalayas. These deposits form sandbanks and islands around which water flows in channels that meet and part—a feature called a braided river, from which journalist Samrat Choudhury’s account of travels

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