
Kanti was 14 when cyclone Amphan damaged her house in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, in West Bengal. Hungry, she was roaming outside her home, expecting food from a nonprofit, when a man with a bag on his back approached her and offered her food and clothes. “I went along. Hardly 10 minutes into the walk, we hopped into his car and I have no memory of what happened after,” till I came to my senses in a brothel, in an unknown city, Kanti, now 18 years-old, tells IndiaSpend.