Nepal Flash Floods
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Lessons from the Mountains
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By Anandajit Goswami
How much of the Himalayas must melt before we rediscover our humanity? I have carried this question for some time. Perhaps it came from the mountains, the rain and the silence. The Himalayas feed rivers, sustain communities and carry memories...
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The Cost of Staying Vulnerable
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By Sagari Gupta
Nepal’s $5 billion reconstruction bill exposes a wider economic failure: when governments repeatedly restore vulnerable assets instead of investing in resilience, natural hazards become recurring fiscal shocks.
Nepal needs $4 billion to $5 billion to rebuild after floods triggered by...
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Unanswered messages, anxious families
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By Quaid Najmi
Mumbai: Over 72 hours after the great Himalayan deluge along the Nepal-Tibet borders, the fate and whereabouts of Mumbai’s mountaineer and medico, Dr. Milind P. Chitaley, his wife Megha and their 61-plus team of pilgrims bound for Kailash Mansarovar Yatra,...
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Tibetans, Nepalis worry, pray for kin
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By Quaid Najmi
Thakkar Bapa Vidyalaya Samithi students during a candle prayer vigil in Chennai on Friday for the victims and survivors of the flash floods in Nepal. Pic: PTI
Mumbai: Thousands of Tibetans and Nepalis settled in Mumbai and parts of Maharashtra...
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Himalayan Warning
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The Himalayas are becoming a graveyard of warnings ignored. Nepal’s latest flash floods have killed at least 165 people and left more than 800 missing, including hundreds of Indian tourists. What makes the catastrophe especially disturbing is that the torrent...
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