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.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

A letter to the NDMA (National Disaster Management Authority)

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Briefly for those interested, the National Disaster Management Authority (link here ) is chaired by the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, t...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STH

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STH is one year old today, 15Sep2008. Looking back, I can tell you we have come a long way... looking forward, I must tell you we have much ...
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Whatever happened after this??

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While perambulating the web in search of articles on our landslide issue, I came across this one - I did not read it when it appeared in 200...
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Monday, September 8, 2008

Media coverage : Bringing our story to the world.

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Over the many weeks that STH has been in existence, one of the things I have had to do is write- firstly on this blog, then to a varied lot ...
Saturday, September 6, 2008

Aug2008 - yet another peaceful month

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As I had blogged earlier, July 2008 turned out to be a very peaceful month.. a little deficient rain and no major landslides .... And so it ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2008

And so life goes on...

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‘Maybe the department is waiting for heavy casualties Rangpo locals living under a shadow of fear ...
Monday, September 1, 2008

From the days papers...

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Early Warning System Scientists have devised a landslide prediction system that is set to take off in the hottest to...
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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Phases of disillusionment..

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Till date I have attended two national level meetings on disaster management where much was trumpeted about the "paradigm shift" f...
Friday, August 29, 2008

Latest photos from NHPC stage III Lo-dam (27th Mile, Kalimpong) - 28Aug08

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Slide 1 - Huge cracks on the massive concrete retaining walls . There is no doubt these cracks are getting larger each day -this area i...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Chapter 22.1.2 (on the Darjiling Himalayas)

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Placed below are excerpts from the W. Bengal Govt website on environment . The link is here " The Darjiling Hill Region of West Bengal...
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