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Counting the Costs: Cyclone Amphan One Year On - Bangladesh


Counting the Costs: Cyclone Amphan One Year On
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On May 20, 2020, devastating Cyclone Amphan made landfall on Jammu island near West Bengal, Bangladesh, with wind speeds of approximately 140 km/hour.
The cyclone affected 10 million people from 19 coastal districts in Bangladesh, of which nine were severely impacted. The Government undertook a massive evacuation of 2.4 million people in 12,078 cyclone shelters, and 26 people died.
“Today we remember those who lost their lives in the devastating Cyclone Amphan in India and Bangladesh,” said Ramesh Singh, Country Director at CARE Bangladesh. “This was only an example of how multiple climatic disasters can cause havoc in Bangladesh, causing loss and damage to lives and property. CARE Bangladesh calls for responsible and concerted efforts from the global community, UN, Government, Donors and I/NGOs, to support vulnerable people to build back better and also promote and facilitate locally-led adaptation with a ....

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Enduring images


Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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Published 18.04.21, 12:16 AM
Five images have remained with me from the five years I spent in West Bengal 2004 to 2009. ‘Indelible’ is a hackneyed word, a cliché. And one must not use stale words to describe or recall experiences that are fresh in one’s memory. But that is exactly what these five images are: indelibly, permanently imprinted on my mind.
They are all about daughters of Bengal.
I have recounted them to myself and to others on different occasions and if the reader has heard them earlier, I may be forgiven.
The first is from Nimtala. Yes, that is right. It is from the site of Calcutta’s famous crematorium. And it comes in the shape of an inland letter that I received in Raj Bhavan one day during the height of the Nandigram crisis. The arrangement was that all letters addressed to me by name wo ....

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India: COVID, climate change pushing Sundarbans women to distress


Sagar Island, India – In April last year, 17-year-old Rani Khatun, a resident of Sagar Island in the Sundarbans, would spend most of her day in school, preparing for the upcoming board exams. She wanted to be a teacher one day.
Less than a year later, Khatun is a school dropout and a victim of domestic violence after a forced underage marriage.
Sundarbans, the world’s biggest delta, is a 10,000 sq km (6,213 sq miles) dense forest of tidal mangroves, straddling India’s eastern coastline and western Bangladesh, opening into the Bay of Bengal.
Crisscrossed by rivers, it is home to nearly 4.5 million people on the Indian side, with a large part of its population being subsistence farmers, dependent on fishing, paddy and betel leaf cultivation, and honey collection. ....

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