संता – भाई, क्या आपदा के कारण होने वाले नुकसान के लिये हमारी जानबूझ कर जोखिम लेने की आदत उत्तरदायी नहीं हैं? बंता – सो तो हैं, पर यह हमें प्रकृति द्वारा दिया गया वरदान भी तो हैं। संता – वरदान? बंता – इसे सकारात्मकता या फिर Positivity Bias कहते हैं, और इसके चलते […]
नदी तल को ऊपर लाता यह मलबा
संता – भाई, आजकल नदी तल से मलबा हटाने को ले कर कुछ ज्यादा हो हल्ला हो रहा हैं? बंता – हाँ, पहले अकेले पर्यावरण प्रेमी ही थे, पर अब न्यायालय भी शामिल हो गया हैं। ऐसे में अखबारों को तो बैठे-बिठाये मसाला मिल ही जाता हैं। संता – पर मसला हैं क्या यह सब? बंता […]
Hindu art of marketing
May be you have not realised this, but we have much to be proud of our tradition. Vedic literature is replete with concepts of zero, along with techniques related to algebra and algorithm, square root and cube root. Arguably, but the origin of Calculus is sure to be traced back to India, some 300 years before […]
भू-स्खलन के बोझ से दबता हिमालय
संता – भाई, हिमांचल हो या फिर उत्तराखण्ड, इस साल तो बरसात ने हर तरफ आफत मचा रखी हैं। बंता – सो तो हैं, नुकसान कुछ ज्यादा ही हो गया हैं। पर वैसे देखा जाये तो बरसात में पहाड़ी ढाल पर मलबे का खिसकना या भू-स्खलन का होना एक आम बात हैं, और इसमें कुछ भी […]
Romanticising rains
This is monsoon time, and during this part of the year it is common to experience floods in the plains and landslides in the mountains. This is what Mother Nature has been doing since times immemorial. Really speaking there is no big a deal in the occurrence of these incidences, particularly during the monsoon period. […]
Wildfires in Hawaii
More than 110 persons have been killed and numbers much larger are still missing in a wildfire that engulfed the town of Lahaina in Hawaii, US. The death count is really big, and yet no questions are being raised over organisational structure, planning, preparedness, and other related issues that would have crippled the responders in […]
Programmed for taking risk
Despite gifted with sensing dangers, we fall prey to positivity bias and ignore safety measures – thus inviting damage, loss and misery. So for bringing forth disaster resilience we have to do away with our evolutionary programming through sustained and well designed advertising strategy.
Electrocution at Chamoli in Uttarakhand
Operator of the Namami Gange Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) operated by Jal Sansthan at Chamoli in Uttarakhand, Shri Ganesh was reportedly electrocuted on 18 July, 2023. Police team along with officials of Jal Sansthan and locals went to the incident site for inquest related formalities of the deceased on 19 July 2023 around 1130 hrs. […]
आपदा की चेतावनी और राहत
Should disaster warning service subscription not be made mandatory for availing life insurance claim and admissible relief benefit? If not anything else this would ensure wider dissemination of disaster warnings that in turn would help reduce the toll of disasters.
For managing alarming rise in road accidents in India
Driving has lately become no less than stepping into an online gaming arena where anything can happen at any time, and there is no surprise that with over 150000 annual fatalities India has one of the highest road accident rates in the world. According to the available data of Ministry of Road Transport and Highways […]