From migration to exodus: Journey of Bangladeshis as SIR fear grips Bengal

The special intensive revision (SIR) began in West Bengal on November 4

For almost two decades, Anoyara Bibi lived in a shanty with her family of five and worked as a ragpicker at Mahishbathan in Salt Lake near Kolkata.

Bangladeshi nationals await their turn at the Hakimpur check post in North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday. (Samir Jana/HT)

Since November 17, though, Bibi is stationed under a banyan tree, a few metres from the Border Security Force check post at Hakimpur in North 24 Parganas, barely 500 metres from the India-Bangladesh international border.

The 75-year-old is waiting for her turn to cross the border. Because despite her prolonged stay in India,