A River Called Titas

Ritwik Ghatak's poetic depiction of memory, loss and a vanishing fishing community.

In 1972, Ritwik Ghatak returned to his lost homeland, the newly liberated Bangladesh, to adapt Advaita Mallabarman’s novel about a fishing community whose lives depend on a dying river. Foreshadowing our climate crisis, Ghatak’s radical narrative weaves personal tragedy with ecological fragility, in a visually gorgeous meditation on the resilience of people and culture amid environmental loss.