Houses after houses, with their cracked walls and broken sills have long been abandoned by their inhabitants in the ghost village situated less than 200 metres from the shore.
Name plates still hang outside the neatly painted entrances; inside tattered clothes and slippers strewn on the floor—a remnant of their former owners—with walls still adorned with beautiful hand painted vines.
Jaya Rajamma, 65, lives with her two daughters, one divorced and another unmarried, her husband, a former fisherman and a grandchild.
Name plates still hang outside the neatly painted entrances; inside tattered clothes and slippers strewn on the floor—a remnant of their former owners—with walls still adorned with beautiful hand painted vines.
Bhima Rao, 45, is walking past the rows of houses that hold their foundations to the last remaining bits of earth along India's eastern coast in the Bay of Bengal.
Name plates still hang outside the neatly painted entrances; inside tattered clothes and slippers strewn on the floor—a remnant of their former owners—with walls still adorned with beautiful hand painted vines.
Jam Lachya sits outside his house with his wife and granddaughter. The fishermen is one of the last remaining 11 people in the village Podempeta which has become the victim of sea ingression and erosion.
Houses after houses, with their cracked walls and broken sills have long been abandoned by their inhabitants in the ghost village situated less than 200 metres from the shore.
Former inhabitants of the of Podemepta village sit at an abandoned house. The houses once belonged to a prosperous fishermen community but are now a testimony of widespread devastation caused by climate change.
Jaya Rajamma sitting outside her house with a relative and her granddaughter. She says that she loved the sea as a child but is now scared of it and avoids looking at it at night.
Former inhabitants of the of Podemepta village sit at an abandoned house. The houses once belonged to a prosperous fishermen community but are now a testimony of widespread devastation caused by climate change.
Houses after houses, with their cracked walls and broken sills have long been abandoned by their inhabitants in the ghost village situated less than 200 metres from the shore.
A boy swimming in the Bay of Bengal sea in Odisha in eastern India.
Chandragiri Shyam, 30, with his son. The fisherman was forced relocate to the new fisherman’s colony in 2019, with his three children, after sea waves came into the village.
Houses after houses, with their cracked walls and broken sills have long been abandoned by their inhabitants in the ghost village situated less than 200 metres from the shore.
Chandragiri Shyam, 30, a fisherman who moved to the new fisherman’s colony in 2019, with his three children, lamented that his life changed after he was forced to relocate. The ancestral house was big but the new house is small and misses raising his sons at the old house.
Houses after houses, with their cracked walls and broken sills have long been abandoned by their inhabitants in the ghost village situated less than 200 metres from the shore.
Name plates still hang outside the neatly painted entrances; inside tattered clothes and slippers strewn on the floor—a remnant of their former owners—with walls still adorned with beautiful hand painted vines.
Jaya Rajamma, 65, lives with her two daughters, one divorced and another unmarried, her husband, a former fisherman and a grandchild.
Name plates still hang outside the neatly painted entrances; inside tattered clothes and slippers strewn on the floor—a remnant of their former owners—with walls still adorned with beautiful hand painted vines.
Bhima Rao, 45, is walking past the rows of houses that hold their foundations to the last remaining bits of earth along India's eastern coast in the Bay of Bengal.
Name plates still hang outside the neatly painted entrances; inside tattered clothes and slippers strewn on the floor—a remnant of their former owners—with walls still adorned with beautiful hand painted vines.
Jam Lachya sits outside his house with his wife and granddaughter. The fishermen is one of the last remaining 11 people in the village Podempeta which has become the victim of sea ingression and erosion.
Houses after houses, with their cracked walls and broken sills have long been abandoned by their inhabitants in the ghost village situated less than 200 metres from the shore.
Former inhabitants of the of Podemepta village sit at an abandoned house. The houses once belonged to a prosperous fishermen community but are now a testimony of widespread devastation caused by climate change.
Jaya Rajamma sitting outside her house with a relative and her granddaughter. She says that she loved the sea as a child but is now scared of it and avoids looking at it at night.
Former inhabitants of the of Podemepta village sit at an abandoned house. The houses once belonged to a prosperous fishermen community but are now a testimony of widespread devastation caused by climate change.
Houses after houses, with their cracked walls and broken sills have long been abandoned by their inhabitants in the ghost village situated less than 200 metres from the shore.
A boy swimming in the Bay of Bengal sea in Odisha in eastern India.
Chandragiri Shyam, 30, with his son. The fisherman was forced relocate to the new fisherman’s colony in 2019, with his three children, after sea waves came into the village.
Houses after houses, with their cracked walls and broken sills have long been abandoned by their inhabitants in the ghost village situated less than 200 metres from the shore.
Chandragiri Shyam, 30, a fisherman who moved to the new fisherman’s colony in 2019, with his three children, lamented that his life changed after he was forced to relocate. The ancestral house was big but the new house is small and misses raising his sons at the old house.
Houses after houses, with their cracked walls and broken sills have long been abandoned by their inhabitants in the ghost village situated less than 200 metres from the shore.
