India, April 23 -- "When the floods came, nobody helped us. It's true that the local party (Trinamool Congress, or TMC) arranged emergency supplies, but those in other neighbourhoods got it through corruption, even though we were the most-affected." In a Rajbanshi village on the banks of the Jaldhaka River in Maynaguri constituency, an elderly woman tells us in detail about the horrific floods that took place last monsoon leading to loss of property and livestock. They live on what historian Debjani Bhattacharya describes as "liquid land" - a space that can be both called land and water but the government must categorise to be one or the other. Sadly the Jaldhaka is an active river with the banks rapidly shifting towards their village, and ...