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Even Doomsday Will Divide Us

Megha Majumdar’s “A Guardian and a Thief” interrogates how the have-nots get by in a climate catastrophe. October 24, 2025, 12:03 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

A woman is seen in mid-thigh deep water on a flooded street. Other people are behind her with buses on either side.

On Sept. 23, days before Durga Puja, the biggest annual carnival for Bengalis, the city of Kolkata experienced a shocking cloudburst. In just a few hours, parts of West Bengal’s capital saw nearly a foot of rainfall, which led to flash floods and the death of at least 12 people. Cars and buses floated on arterial roads as residents drained buckets of water from their houses. Homeless people scrambled to find shelter, and the power supply was disrupted for hours. A

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