Visions of Hell

SaveTheHills(STH) is a group of concerned citizens who are raising awareness about landslides in Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya. Many landslides are the direct or indirect result of human interference and preventable if sufficient care is taken. As such, unless we begin a comprehensive and sustained program towards landslide management, prevention and mitigation, the consequences of ignoring years of human callousness will, in the future be devastating.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Media coverage and a comment

›
From Himalay Darpan on 30Mar2008 and From the Telegraph: 31Mar2008 Monsoon worry for Kalimpong - SOS to PM: save...
1 comment:
Saturday, March 29, 2008

640 desperate voices...

›
A week back, I met 8 gentlemen from Alaichikhop, Kalimpong (refer blog entry of Sep2007). What they told me was all too familiar; they said ...
1 comment:
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

A letter to the Administrator, (DGHC) Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council

›
As is known to many of the readers, after weeks of political turmoil Mr Subhas Ghising was forced to relinquish his post as Administrator (D...

The end (hopefully) and not the beginning of it...

›
An excerpt from today's Telegraph ___________________________________ 1 killed in landslide ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Another voice in the wilderness...

›
Placed above is a scan from today's "Himalay Darpan" (a prominent Nepali daily in North Bengal and Sikkim) about the landslide...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Now that the rains are here...

›
Yesterday we had the first big premonsoon shower in Kalimpong... since nothing much has been done by way of landslide prevention, I thought ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

The frailties of human memory

›
"India provides striking examples of a bewildering variety of landslides and other mass movements.There have been numerous landslid...
Saturday, March 8, 2008

About disaster prevention...

›
"Building a culture of prevention is not easy. While the cost of prevention had to be paid in the present, its benefits lie in the dist...

A visit to Harsing

›
I was disheartened to hear that in the last raining season, Harsing, a beautiful old tea garden, had to suffer for our profanities of ...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Insurance against landslides : a personal experience

›
Like so many other people, I have been getting my house insured (Householders Insurance Policy) for many years,earlier with National Insuran...
1 comment:
‹
›
Home
View web version

Contributors

  • SaveTheHills
  • Shreya Gurung
Powered by Blogger.