THE HUNGRY TIDE

This is the story of PIYA(piyali roy).
well, there are other characters also, but I usually see the story from a women's perspective.
Piya is a US based cetologist(one who studies about marine mammals).
she comes to India to find out about a species of Dolphins in the Ganga.(W.Bengal)
she meets KANAI(kanai dutt) on the train.
kanai is on his way to his aunt's home. He invites piya for a stay over there. Piya goes on her own way, gets permission from the forest department(only with the help of an acquaintance)
she manages to go for an expedition on the river, but falls into the river due to the forest guard's recklessness(this guard represents the Indian public servants who are careless about every thing in the world).
she is saved by FOKIR.
fokir is a fisherman & the son of Kusum(kanai's childhood friend).
Piya & fokir doesn't share a common language, but manage very well with signs.
fokir turns out to have excellent knowledge about the dolphins for which piya is searching. It appears as if Piya falls in love with fokir, though she knows that he is a married man & the father of a six year old.
Through fokir, Piya again meets kanai(fokir lives in the same village)
kanai tries to flirt with Piya but gets no success & becomes jealous of fokir.
while studying the dolphins, Piya & fokir find themselves in the middle of a fierce storm, which is uprooting trees.
fokir dies trying to save Piya.
Piya requests the help of her friends and collects some money for fokir's widow & child.
Too many coincidences in the story, but the setting of the story is interesting.
I knew many things about sunderbans.
and the story of kusum has resemblences with the Nandigram incident.
what scares one while reading the story is the Man-eaters of the sunderbans(literally The Beautiful Jungle)