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Amitangshu Acharya

Amitangshu Acharya is a Leverhulme Trust Ph.D Scholar at University of Edinburgh, U.K., and a Fellow at Konrad Lorenz Institute, Austria.

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Cities

We must recognise cities as waterscapes

and Ajaya Dixit Recurring floods in major cities point to need for moving away from land-centric urbanism Chennai is flooded. The north-east monsoon that […]

11/12/2021 / Amitangshu Acharya

COVID-19

Pandemics and prejudice: When there is an epidemic, social prejudices resurface

Diseases don’t care for race or class. But they continue to be pinned to race, gender, sexual preference and geography In the early 1900s […]

04/26/2020 / Amitangshu Acharya

coronavirus Disease epidemics hate injustice Pandemic society

Disasters

Colonial Hangover: Engineering a season of floods

Insurgent South Asian rivers breached embankments repeatedly, turning engineered floodplains into hydrological dystopias, but dams kept getting built, and embankments kept getting longer and […]

11/20/2019 / Amitangshu Acharya

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Biodiversity

Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, saviour of the East Kolkata Wetlands, believed in people and not policies

The environmentalist, who died on Friday, fought his battle as a bureaucrat, researcher, academic, public intellectual and activist It was only 10 years ago. […]

02/20/2018 / Amitangshu Acharya

India Kolkata Obituary UN Global 500 Wetlands