In the Sundarbans, climate risks are reshaping what it means to grow up. Deep Purkayastha (Praajak Development Society, India) and Anindit Roy Chowdhury (Terre Des Hommes, India) discuss changing childhoods, migration, gender, child protection and the pressures that can lead to child marriage.

In this episode, we speak with Mary E. John, professor, educator and author of 'Child Marriage in an International Frame: A Feminist Review from India'.

Mary challenges simplistic perceptions of child marriage as merely a 'harmful practice' and explores its historical roots as both a social and feminist issue in India and globally. This episode is particularly relevant for understanding the structural fabric of marriage as a compulsory institution and how it has been strategically employed as a response to societal crises.

In this episode, we speak with Syed Aminul Haque from COAST Foundation, who has spent over three decades working in the most ecologically vulnerable pockets of Bangladesh. We discuss the impacts of recurring floods and cyclones on fishing communities living on the brink in the country's coastline, and their compulsions to get their young daughters married in order to survive. Tune in to learn more.