The Mid-Day March: Why Mock Drills are the True Lifesavers of the Himalayas: Santa dismisses a mandatory community evacuation drill as a waste of productive village hours, believing common sense is enough during a crisis. Banta uses behavioral metrics to demonstrate how regular drills and inclusive risk mapping transform panic into survival-ready muscle memory, protecting families during midnight cloudburst disasters.
Mock exercise
The Sunehri Chabi and the Locked Shelter
A disaster shelter is only as effective as the community trained to run it—without clear roles, key-keepers, and regular evacuation drills, concrete hardware quickly fails in a crisis. True resilience requires investing just as heavily in “social software” and community preparedness as we do in physical infrastructure.
पंडित जी और रामू मल्लाह
कहाँ तक तो शायद किसी को नहीं पता, पर गंगा किनारे बसे उस गाँव के पंडित जी थे काफी पढ़े-लिखे व ज्ञानी। लोगो का मानना था कि उन्होंने छोटी उम्र में ही वेद-पुराण सब कंठस्त कर लिये थे। फिर ज्योतिष व ग्रह-नक्षत्रो की चाल पर भी उनकी गहरी पकड़ थी। कुंडली और हाथ तो जाने […]