India’s rivers are an important part of the country’s national identity and nurture millions of lives along their banks. They have also bewitched Siddharth Agarwal, an aerospace engineer and environmentalist who has been walking along those rivers recording the stories of the marginalised people and communities caught in their ebb and flow, his purpose being to affect policymaking. Agarwal belongs.
Latest India cyclone leaves thousands homeless
World
May 28, 2021
Digha, India: Thousands of people were homeless Thursday after a cyclone battered Covid-ravaged India and neighbouring Bangladesh, killing nine people including four children.
Cyclones are a regular menace in the northern Indian Ocean but many scientists say they are becoming more frequent and severe as climate change warms sea temperatures. Barely a week after Cyclone Tauktae claimed at least 155 lives in western India, Cyclone Yaas forced the evacuation of more than 1.5 million people in the eastern states of West Bengal and Odisha.
The storm hit on Wednesday with torrential rain and howling winds gusting up to 155 kilometres (96 miles) an hour, equivalent to a category two hurricane. Waves the size of double-decker buses pounded the shore and swamped towns and villages along the coastline, exacerbated by a higher-than-normal tide because of a full moon.
Thousands of people were homeless Thursday after a cyclone battered Covid-ravaged India, killing 4 people. Cyclones are a regular menace in the northern Indian Ocean but many scientists say they are becoming more frequent and severe as climate change warms sea temperatures. Barely a week after Cyclone Tauktae claimed at least 155 lives in western India, Cyclone Yaas forced
Digha, India: Thousands of people were homeless Thursday after a cyclone battered Covid-ravaged India and neighbouring Bangladesh, killing nine people including four children.Cyclones are a regular.