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Fascinating stuff from Dr. Debojyoti Das
Memory, history and place; the Puthi and Dalit literature of the #Sundarbans
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Memory, history and place; the Puthi and Dalit literature of the #Sundarbans
@PolEcoNet #pollen20 @stepscentre
"The puthi literature, for example, Bonobibi Jawaharnama and Manasa Mangal attend to the concept of biocentrism and ecological egalinitarism where humans are seen as part of nature not as a dominant or superior agent."
"Modern environmentalism can gain considerably from the wisdom embedded in puthi literature and vernacular postmodern dalit literature that talk about human behavior regulated by the moral "ethics of care" and “rights for nature”."
Last month #CycloneAmphan hit the #Sundarbans. Rebuilding lives will take years & new visions. Meanwhile, even the most #selfreliant residents are struggling w/o basics. Pls donate to DISHA dishaearth.org providing relief to islands most affected. Details below.
DISHA is a small organisation with long term relationships in the #Sundarbans. In partnership with fishers union #DMF, volunteers are serving Sagar, Namkhana, Kakdwip, Kulpi, Goasaba & Hingalganj blocks. For more photographs of relief efforts, look at facebook.com/DISHA-EARTH-10…
For those of you who have already donated, THANK YOU! Volunteers are focused on providing relief & not report writing, nevertheless these will give you a sense of where your donations are being spent. Food, medicines, tarpaulins, sanitary napkins & basics dishaearth.org/CovidnAmphan_R…
The sky is cloudy, it might rain again in the #Sundarbans post #CycloneAmphan. There is an URGENT need for 5k tarpaulins & food in Sagar, Namkhana, Patharpratima, Kultali, Gosaba & Hingalgang @_YogendraYadav @MahuaMoitra @MamataOfficial @moefcc @TeestaSetalvad @timesofindia
Residents are trying to rebuild homes, but with no drinking water in several blocks & breached embankments, it is crucial that relief reaches them immediately @SanctuaryAsia @ttindia @htTweets @AITCofficial @derekobrienmp @OxfamIndia @ActionAidIndia @PMOIndia @harsh_mander
Get in touch with volunteer networks, #DMF, #DISHA or @Ratulsa69195892 who have a reach on the ground to contribute to rebuilding. Help is needed NOW before full tide on full moon on the 5th of June. @aniruddhg1 @sayantanbera @ndmaindia @UNEP @apupractconnect @TheStatesmanLtd
#CycloneAmphan cracked Sundarban's lifelines: embankments. Why are these vital? Thread 👇Maybe we need to be more imaginative in how these lifelines and lives on the peripheries are reconstructed @moefcc @MamataOfficial @MahuaMoitra @India4Climate @UNEP @WWFINDIA @SanctuaryAsia
This is a photo I took in 2017 when the concrete embankments post #CycloneAila had just been constructed. The #Embankment Reconstruction Project was allocated a whopping Rs 5,032 crore/ GBP 562 million funded by @WorldBank to build cement and block walls @sayantanbera
After #AmphanSuperCyclone, several of these concrete embankments, 5 meters high and 30-40 meters wide, concretising 35,000 km peripheries of #Sundarbans
have collapsed, broken, and in many places have taken massive chunks of the riverbed down with them @GhoshAmitav
have collapsed, broken, and in many places have taken massive chunks of the riverbed down with them @GhoshAmitav
Got through to 5 friends in the #Sundarbans, only Jio SIMs seem to be working, IF the @PMCares, provide immediate relief to blocks that have been severely hit by #CycloneAmphan @MamataOfficial @AITCofficial @MahuaMoitra @ntca_india @WCCBHQ @moefcc @derekobrienmp Updates below
Migrants not been able to send remittances for the past two months, several haven't returned, others will not be able to find work outside due to the lockdown to rebuild their lives. In the villages, roads have completely caved in; sweet water ponds have submerged.
Even the concrete so called “modern” embankments made up of cinder and cement have cracked, been swallowed by the hungry tide @GhoshAmitav & paddy fields and ponds are submerged with saline water. Fresh water fish have died. It will take 2-3 years before agriculture can resume.
An island in India is disappearing, but some of the last residents say they can't afford to move away
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Ghoramara Island, located in eastern India, is gradually disappearing due to rising sea levels. The island is only about 1.8 square miles in size - half of it was 20 years ago. Most residents have left, but some say they can't afford to resettle.
The #Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, stretches across the border between India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal. It is home to endangered tigers, dolphins, and 300 species of birds.
