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INDIA - BANGLADESH BORDER FENCE, 2008

These images were made In 2008 during a 2500 km journey for Time Magazine along the India – Bangladesh border fence during its 4th year of construction.

A closed gate in the border fence near the BSF's Gunarmath border outpost, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, 2008.

Watchtower and border fence at BSF's Gobra border outpost, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, 2008.

View of the border fence at Kuchlibari village, near Teen Bigha, West Bengal, 2008.

Passenger and goods boats being checked at BSF's Bansichar checkpoint on the Brahmaputra river in Dhubri district, Assam, 2008.

A BSF patrol flags down a boat on the Brahmaputra river in Dhubri district, Assam, 2008.

Residents of a 'chaar' island on the Brahmaputra river on the Indo-Bangladesh border in Dhubri district, Assam, 2008.

Fazlur Rehman's home in the village of Panidhar in India is separated from his brothers's home across the path in Bangladesh.

Village of Panidhar which straddles the Zero line on the Indo Bangladesh border in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, 2008.

Bangladeshi girl, Fatima, and her Indian neighbour, Tasleema. Their homes are separated by a path.

Residents of South Jhaukuti village in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal enter their village through a security gate.

A farmer with his bullocks at the BSF's Gobra border outpost in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, 2008.

A girl watches her goats as they graze behind the border fence at Kuchlibari village, near Teen Bigha, West Bengal, India, 2008.

BSF soldiers patrol a floodlit part of the Indo-Bangladesh border fence at the Murikhawa border outpost, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India, 2008.

Floodlit border fence at BSF's Gobra border outpost in North 24 Parganas,West Bengal, 2008.

Construction of the border fence at Rangaraikuti village, Dhubri district, Assam, 2008.