Recent Highlights
All Stories for Cyclone Amphan
Amitav Ghosh on his book Jungle Nama, folk traditions: 'We have to find ways to make reading collaborative'
Arshia • 4 years agoThrough his new book Jungle Nama — written completely in verse, with artwork by Salman Toor — the writer wishes to uphold and celebrate folk traditions of storytelling by engaging with diverse mediums such as audiobooks, graphic novels and video-gaming.
Centre approves Rs 4,382 cr for six states to cover damages caused by cyclone, floods, and landslides
• 4 years agoThe calamity assistance will be granted to West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Sikkim from the National Disaster Response Fund
Udayan Mukherjee's Essential Items captures glimpses from the pandemic, unsettlingly blurring fact-fiction divide
Arshia • 4 years agoThe stories in Udayan Mukherjee's new book poignantly reflect and honour the prevailing precariousness of our lives, as they continue to unfold while we vie to reach the finishing line, much like his characters.
Coronavirus Outbreak: Mamata Banerjee allows reality TV shows to resume shooting, but with no live audience
• 5 years agoMamata Banerjee urged directors and producers to spread awareness about coronavirus through films and TV shows.
Submerged homes, flooded fields, derailed lives: The aftermath of Cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh, in photos
The Third Pole • 5 years agoIn the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan, with homes and livelihoods washed away, most residents in Bangladesh try to survive, some migrate.
How community-run tourism can help Sundarbans recover from Cylone Amphan's devastating effects
The Third Pole • 5 years agoCommunity-run ecotourism in and near the Sundarbans has the potential to popularise some of the existing and new tourism routes and locations. But a number of obstacles have to be overcome before it can really work.
Category Error: Of a community's small pleasures, Biblical plagues, and lives lived on a fault line
Amruta Patil • 5 years agoIn 'Category Error', writer-painter Amruta Patil marries news-triggered observation with fiction, history, philosophy, against the backdrop of an Indian high rise.
In Sundarbans, cyclones' worst impact not on natural areas and inhabitants, but on non-indigenous and exotic
Anamitra Anurag Danda • 5 years agoRepeated storm strikes have shown that it is the human communities of the Sundarbans that suffer the most. The impact of Cyclone Amphan is no different.
Coronavirus, cyclones and locusts: In 2020, it's getting harder than ever to ignore science and our impact on the environment
Samrat • 5 years agoIt’s hard to deny it any longer: 2020 is getting seriously apocalyptic.
BJP leader Bhupender Yadav accuses Mamata Banerjee of 'depriving' people of Centre's COVID-19 relief schemes
• 5 years agoClaiming that the Mamata Banerjee-led state is lagging behind in healthcare, education and culture, in which it once used to be a leader in the country, Yadav said that soon the BJP will get a chance to change the situation for the better.