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October 10, 2024
FCRA – Fighting Crackdown on Rights & Activists
It’s been three months since our Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) license renewal was denied. Then, we said there must be life beyond FCRA. Looking back at what we managed to do during these three months, we think there indeed was a semblance of life post-FCRA. We thought it would be nice ...
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September 30, 2024
वर्षा की तीव्रता,आवृत्ति और बांध के कारण बाढ़ आपदा
औसत वैश्विक तापमान वृद्धि के कारण लंबे समय तक बारिश न होने के और अचानक अत्यधिक बारिश की घटना के कारण बाढ़ में बढोतरी हुआ है। आपदा आने से ठीक पहले वायनाड केरल में अभूतपूर्व बारिश हुई थी। जिले की सलाना औसत का 6 प्रतिशत बारिश महज़ एक दिन में बरस गई। विगत कुछ वर्षों से जलवायु परिवर्तन वर्षा की तीव्रता औ...
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September 10, 2024
Banks and Disaster Relief
With climate change, human interventions, unscientific development and greed, disasters are frequently happening in the country. As Dr P. Sainath writes in the title of his famous book, “Everybody Loves a Good Drought,” everyone except those who are directly affected loves a disaster. T...
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