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, by CHANDA Aratrika , No Borders News
As of May 24, India is reporting 131,868 coronavirus infections and 3,867 Covid-19 deaths. The pandemic has thus far hit Maharashtra state on the west coast the hardest, including the city of Mumbai with nearly 1,000 [confirmed] Covid-19 deaths . Prime Minister Narandra Modi initially won high (...)
, by JOHNSON Mark, The Wire (IN)
As floods continue to ravage the entire state of Kerala leaving at least 300 dead and countless others homeless and destitute, the labour movement has mobilised in solidarity
Kerala’s fishworkers Union KSMTF was the first to join rescue efforts. KSMTF has mobilised its members and deployed them (...)
, by KOHLI Namita, ROY Arundhati
It will not be enough for us to rue the past, writes Arundhati Roy.
This year in Kerala, the monsoon that we long for, and the rivers that we pretend to love, are talking back to us. Certainly, for me, the rain was the ink in my pen, and the river, the Meenachil, drove my story. They made me (...)
, by PIZZATI Carlo
City companies take a leaf out of Mark Zuckerberg’s book to pass off self-interest as philanthropy.
Like a few million other people in Chennai, I’ve found myself stuck in the house these past few days without electricity, water, fresh food or the Internet. That’s the price of living in a city (...)
, by NARAYANAN Nayantara
Neighbours in a Chooleimedu slum have ended up in two very different kinds of relief shelters.
Deepa Rajkumar is eight months pregnant. On the night of December 1, when the rains hit Chennai the hardest, she was in her house in the Namachivayapuram slum in Chooleimedu. “The water came in from (...)
, by MODY Sujata
Tens of neighbourhoods with the city’s working population have been inundated. The damage to their houses is just the beginning of their loss.
While Chennai’s army of public sanitation workers work all hours to help deal the city with the floods, it seems there’s nobody to care for them.
Some (...)
, by JAYARAMAN Nityanand
The infrastructure of big commerce has replaced the infrastructure to withstand natural shocks.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s response to the floods in Tamil Nadu is frightening. A report in NDTV quotes her as saying, “Losses are unavoidable when there’s very heavy rain. Swift (...)
Chennai [Madras] is locked in an inextricable battle with water. In the brutal summers, the city can’t get enough of it. And when it rains, the coastal metropolis of over four million people often finds itself inundated by too much of it.
The rains this year have been particularly deadly. At (...)
, by KRISHNAN Radhika
The catastrophic flooding in the Himalayan hill state of Uttarakhand, India, has received little coverage in the western press. Official reports say over 800 people have been killed, but local observers and journalists put the figure in the thousands. Many more are stranded, and outbreaks of (...)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Assam faced its usual yearly bout of severe floods, while Orissa is facing a unprecedented flood fury that is threatening to break the record of the Kosi floods in Bihar. In these cases, too, however, the catastrophe is less natural and more man-made–specifically, made by negligent Governments. (...)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Dear Friends, Some 12 districts of Bihar - Muzaffarapur, Supaul, Saharsa, Madhepura, Katihar, Araria, West Champaran, Khagaria, Sitamarhi, Patna and Nalanda are reeling under the worst flooding of the Kosi in the last half century. Millions are affected and many lives lost. The Bihar (...)
, by SAMY L. A.
The relief and rehabilitation work that was supposed to have been commenced in the wake of the December 2004 catastrophic tsunami that claimed thousands of life-both human and animal and left many more thousands of people homeless and devastated their livelihood sources in the state of Tamil (...)
, by AREDS, SAMY L. A.
Dear Partners and friends,
Greetings from AREDS and Samy.
After attending a seminar in Prague on the “Relationship Between Civil Society and Public Authority” and after my brief visits and various meeting in France, Spain, Belgium and Holland, I returned to India on November 21st. From the day (...)
, by SRI RAMAN J.
To some, this may sound like just the kind of drivel to be expected of a cranky peace activist. But, believe me, I am not the one to be talking of “security concerns” making it impossible for India to cooperate in an essential disaster prevention project for the Indian Ocean region.
Come (...)
, by SAMY L. A.
The tsunami which devastated coastal areas of Southeast Asia on the 26th December, 2004, was revealing both of tension as well as greatness in society. It uncovered problems that would otherwise have been hushed or ignored; vileness mixed with gestures of solidarity. And yet, out of these were (...)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
The havoc wrought by the killer tsunami waves of 26 December has once again demonstrated the utter vulnerability of human life in the face of nature’s fury. A week after the tragedy, the world is yet to assess the full scale of devastation in terms of human lives and material losses. In (...)
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