My research project is an examination of sense-making practices in the Sundarban Archipelago located in the Bay of Bengal. As such, it incorporates both the principles and commitments of subaltern representation and methodological explorations. The Sundarbans is a borderworld – a group of small islands existing between land and water, villages and forest, India and Bangladesh. It is also a disappearing world across multiple modalities: physical disappearance due to sea level rise, biological disappearance of species most notably the iconic Bengal tiger, socio-cultural disappearance due to migration, and the very common human disappearance or death by tiger or crocodile attacks. How does one make sense of life in an extreme and violent lifeworld like this? Is there any logic of sense that connects all these modalities of disappearance? Can we situate literature as a sense-making practice among other sense-making practices? Can literature become a mode of struggle against disappearance and oblivion?