January-February
2007
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Iron Curtain’s Mendacity
This cover is a report to the nation of the relentless suffering of the people of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Their decline from a proud race of independent tribals who cared two hoots for the government, to a people crippled by a corrupt, inefficient administration in sub-human conditions of survival is not accidental but a symptom of our colonial hangover
More horrifying than Tsunami
the ground beneath the waves
Forget the crocodile tears. Two years after the tsunami, the homeless survivors look for straws of hope in the once pristine and now devastated islands of Andaman and Nicobar. All they discover is that they have been brutally betrayed by a nexus of corrupt officials and NGOs - A Report by the Human Rights Law Network
The Daily Apocalypse
For those who are afraid of impending disasters anywhere, Satya Sagar has a message. The apocalypse is already over and it's happening right now. There are a million micro-apocalypses happening all the time. So stop searching for the big one and look more carefully at the little one in your immediate line of sight
Farce follows Disaster
The top down approach of the disaster managment act had its advantages but completely ignored local knowledge and ways of living. The need is for a judicious mix of the traditional and technological
BBC report on the release of India Disasters Report:
Towards a Policy Initiative, OUP, 2000
FLASHBACK A report released in India by Oxfam has attacked Indian policymakers and the media for paying scant attention to natural disasters. The report says that Indian government’s efforts to tackle natural disasters are more reactive than preventive. It recommends the construction of earthquake-resistant housing in seismic zones, better construction and layout of roads...
Exiled in Your Own Imaginary Homeland
Almost 60 percent of tsunami survivors still live in rapidly deteriorating temporary shelters made of tar sheet or tin
There was Once an Old Tehri town...
Despite three decades of criticism and concerns, as the Tehri dam finally starts producing electricity and drinking water reaches distant Delhi, most questions have gone unanswered
The future of tragedy is now
All it would take is about 90 minutes for Rishikesh and Haridwar to be flooded, if the Tehri dam breaks. And this is not a remote possibility. From its seismic prone location and failure of environmental clearance by the Bhumbla Committee, to the damaging impact on the lives and livelihoods of thousands of people, the Tehri dam poses a clear, catastrophic danger
Drowned out of the map
In village after village, submerged with the rising waters of the gigantic, multi-crore Tehri dam, thousands of displaced people in Tehri Garhwal narrate the same, tragic story: their temples, homes, shops, trees, streams, forests, fertile land, memories, hopes, futures, have been drowned. But the entire government machinery operates overtime to deny them even an iota of justice, land, home, compensation or rehabilitation