The relationship of rains and romance being erased and rather than analysing the causes of increasing losses due to landslide, flood and flash flood incidences there has been an increasing trend, particularly in the social media to demonise monsoonal rains. But then, can we do without the bounty of monsoonal rains?
2013 Uttarakhand disaster
Reminiscence: June 2013 disaster of Uttarakhand
Exactly 8 years have passed, and all that transpired is still fresh, even bit-by-bit; the impact, the devastation, as also the lull that followed. Except for sudden short-lived disturbances weather is generally fair around the middle of June but on Friday June 14, 2013 it was raining from the previous day, and the downpour was […]