Kerala Floods not for the first time: Kerala floods resurfaced after 1924 and have again caught unawares the modern technology systems boastful of their might and their superior grip. Just as the [...]
The world is witnessing rapid urbanisation. More than half of the world population today resides in cities, towns and rapidly coming up urban agglomerations. The major urbanisation is happening [...]
The Disaster Management Act (2005) in Section 39 (2) states that every department of the government of state should “integrate into its developmental plans and projects, the measures of disaster [...]
The first South Asian Annual Disaster Management Exercise (SAADMex- 2015) hosted by the Government of India culminated with the South Asian countries coming to a common consensus for the [...]
Popular Culture mainly refers to culture which is based on the tastes and preferences of ordinary people rather than educated elites. In India, hindi movies form the major bulwark of the popular [...]
The synthesis of proliferated population structure, process of rapid urbanization and concerns stemming like congestion, haphazard and unplanned structures compounded with filling up of natural [...]
Floods and Fashion The idea of floods often covers our mind with the thoughts of knee deep water clogging the streets and vehicles honking to get way. Worse still, getting stuck and vehicles [...]
‘Clothes Maketh a Man’, the Bard said and its true we often judge a person by his/ her clothes. In our class-conscious society, we pigeon-hole people based on whether he wears [...]
A new academic research Centre at JNU which is also the first transdisciplinary research Centre has finally arrived on the JNU turf. The academic environment at JNU is already multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary at every centre but the new centre which has been given the name ‘Special Centre for Disaster Research’ is transdisciplinary in nature
