Houses of cards

A recent workshop reveals that the rehabilitation of the 1993 Marathwada earthquake victims was a bloody farce

30 years of Latur-Osmanabad Quake: It is time we paid proper attention to rehabilitation as a concept, says Atul Deulgaonkar

Senior journalist has just come out with a book on the botched rehabilitation in the aftermath of the quake  

It's all in the planets

ASTROLOGY IN PREDICTING WEATHER AND EARTHQUAKES B V Raman Publisher: UBSPD Publishers, New Delhi Price: Rs 35

Building on wrong premises

The plan to rehabilitate the victims of the devastating earthquake that shook Latur last year ignores the needs of the villagers and introduces …

Book Excerpt: Fractured Rehabilitation

Journalist Atul Deulgaonkar's new book in Marathi describes the botched rehabilitation efforts in the aftermath of the Latur-Osmanabad Earthquake …

Nowhere!

Three months after Gujarat was flattened by an earthquake, the state government goes in for a relocation plan to satisfy the builder's lobby

Handmade paper industry flourishes in Latur

When you hear about Latur, you remember earthquakes, drought, and disaster. But making beauty out of ashes is what the Kalpakala Industry …

2023 in a blink: Five of best books DTE reviewed and excerpted

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2023

Double victims

Latur earthquake victims being given false promises

A road set free

Latur gains from anti-encroachment drive on farm roads. State takes its cue

Wising up after the quake

Marathwada's dry story

How poor policies pushed the region into one of its worst droughts ever

Large-scale germination failure in soybean, Maharashtra farmers hit hard

Could speed up decline of the crop in the region

Parched ground