Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

Anatomy of a flood: The case of Kosi in 2008

Nature’s rage has been written about in such graphic detail that one needs to consider how and why disasters happened, whether it was avoidable and what lessons might be gleaned from it

Posted on 25 Sep, 2008 09:24 AM

More than 17 million people have been affected in India, Bangladesh and Nepal by the recent floods in South Asia. Around 3 million people have been rendered homeless and more than one million are now living in relief camps.

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