It’s been five days since West Bengal was hit by cyclone Amphan. The 130-km stretch between Kolkata and the Sundarbans that is usually a feast for the eyes, with paddy fields, fish ponds and a lush green canopy, is now a wreck. Uprooted trees, mangled electric posts and flooded croplands are what one gets to see now. ThePrint’s Madhuparna Das brings you some glimpses from the mangrove forest and the journey from Kolkata. A villager in the Sundarbans’ Jharkhali panchayat works on a breached embankment after Cyclone Amphan. Hundreds of electric posts were uprooted, leaving the village in darkness. Seawater entered the villages and flooded the cropland while it also left roads submerged. Villagers now fish on the land they used to cultivate. The heavy rain drenched all stocked grains. Women now try to dry these stocks.