• STEPS Seminar: In the Eye of a Cyclone: The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change in the Sundarban Delta

    Convening Space Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Dr Debojyoti Das, ERC Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London Tropical Cyclones are a yearly event in the Bay of Bengal coastal seaboard. The deadliest cyclones in the world have formed here, including the 1970 Bhola super cyclone, which killed 500,000 people. The misery and destruction caused by...

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  • Webinar: Transformations in and beyond Covid-19 in India and Bangladesh

    11.00 UTC · 12.00 UK · 16.30 India · 17.00 Bangladesh Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u87JAXv5HZo About this event Flyer (PDF) This event is convened by the TAPESTRY project. The coronavirus outbreak has disrupted almost all aspects of life in India and Bangladesh. Apart from the immediate impacts on victims of the virus, the lockdowns imposed by governments...