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Chronicle from an attic window
A scene from the September floods that wreaked havoc in Kashmir.Photo: Ieshan Wani “It is a war,” an old woman on the road cried as she saw fierce waters approaching, and submerging everything that...
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Bhopal: Three decades of struggle
A torchlight rally commemorating the Bhopal gas tragedy.Flickr / Colin Toogood, Bhopal Medical Appeal On 15 November, Premlata Chaudhary, along with four other women, broke her protest fast at Delhi’s...
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Sikkim’s ecological fragments
A view of Dzongu, Sikkim from Tholung monastery.Photo: Flickr / buddhatripper During my first visit to Sikkim in the winter of 2010, I went to a place called Dzongu – a land which is revered and...
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Why the Teesta matters
Sluice gates on a canal in West Bengal originating from the Teesta Barrage.Photo: Flickr / International Rivers Foreign-policy analysts in India and Bangladesh are concerned over the growing...
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In the time of toxic air
View of west of Delhi from Jama masjid.Photo: Flickr / jepoirrier You are on life support, it’s fragile, it’s technical, it’s public, it’s political, it could break down – it is breaking down – it’s...
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Landscapes of an occupation
Remains of an Army camp in Bela-Slamabad built on a stream bankPhoto: Mahum Shabir (This article is a part of the web-exclusive series from our latest issue ‘Disaster Politics’. More from the print...
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Waiting for disaster
Downtown YangonPhoto: Wikimedia Commons/ Go-Myanmar (This article is a part of the web-exclusive series from our latest issue ‘Disaster Politics’. More from the print quarterly here.) Cyclone Nargis...
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A Himalayan warning
A building in Uttarakhand collapses due to flash floods in 2012.Photo: Wikimedia Commons / European Commission DG ECHO (This article is a part of the web-exclusive series from our latest issue...
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Shelter from the storm
Photo: Flickr / BBC World Service Bangladesh Boat (This article from our archives is a part of the web-exclusive series on our latest issue ‘Disaster Politics’. It was first published in March 2011....
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…In the global imaginary of climate change, Bangladesh holds a prominent position. Frequently described as the ‘world’s most vulnerable country to climate change’, this imagination of Bangladesh’s...
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Development as disaster
The coastline of Mukundarayar Chathiram, Ta,il Nadu, IndiaPhoto : Flickr / Feng Zhong (In this essay from our quarterly issue ‘Disaster Politics’, Nityananda Jayaraman observes how Tamil Nadu is...
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Nine months after the earthquake in Nepal, Himal presents a documentary and immersive feature on reconstruction efforts and our readiness for the next big oneThe post A Himal film production appeared...
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The Nepal earthquake, one year later
The 25 April Earthquake that shook the central hills of Nepal in 2015 will forever be embedded in the memory of those who lived through it. The aftermath of that disaster continues to be felt by...
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Langtang the terrible, Langtang the beautiful
Langtang Lirung (7227m) from Kyanjin Ri, above Kyanjin Gomba (3830m).Photo: Rabi Thapa I’m walking across the biggest landslide I’ve ever seen, and I know how I’m supposed to be feeling. But I don’t...
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Coal cauldron
PHOTO COURTESY: TARKAPAW YOUTH GROUP In recent years, as Myanmar has moved toward democracy, a particular four-letter word has repeatedly appeared in the news – coal. The highly-polluting lignite...
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Change and dispossession
Sitting next to me on the one bench available for travellers at the waiting area in the airport in Simikot, the headquarters of Humla district in western Nepal, was a young man who unbeknownst at that...
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Anti-politics of climate change
The Ganges River DeltaPhoto: Wikimedia Commons (This is an essay from our September 2015 print quarterly ‘The Bangladesh Paradox’. See more from the issue here.) In the global imaginary of climate...
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Everybody loves a good earthquake
Medical Supplies from Direct Relief in Response to Nepal EarthquakeSource: Wikimedia Commons (This is an essay from our print quarterly ‘Disaster Politics’. See more from the issue here.) Southasia has...
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State of emergency
Source: Wikimedia Commmons (This is an essay from our July 2015 print quarterly, ‘Disaster Politics’. See more from the issue here.) On 25 April 2015, Baburam Bhandari, an undersecretary at the Home...
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Roads to riches
SOURCE: EMAPSWORLD.COM (This article is part of our special package on Myanmar. Read more articles here.) Myanmar’s leader, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, has extended an invitation to ethnic...
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