#CycloneAmphan

Sacrilegious Witch

We're beginning relief work in Bengal. Please donate! This will have to be a long, sustained community effort. #CycloneAmphanImpact #CycloneAmphan This is for immediate relief in Sunderbans. Please donate. I'll

Even as you ask the rest of the country to think of Bengal as India, don't forget that Bengal is more than just Kolkata with a token ref. to the

Debapriya Sengupta

The darkness in the city still looms, People still stuck without basic amenities, can’t imagine the plight in the interiors and districts. The apathy in circles beyond Eastern India seems

The aftermath of #CycloneAmphan has left 80 dead (&rising) millions without food, electricity or homes. Relief efforts are incredibly challenging with all of this is unfolding against the backdrop of

Rajini Vaidyanathan

As #CycloneAmphan advances, a worrying update. Last month we reported on #Rohingya refugees stranded at sea. Now there are urgent fears for hundreds still stuck on boats which could be

The sky is cloudy, it might rain again in the #Sundarbans post #CycloneAmphan. There is an URGENT need for 5k tarpaulins & food in Sagar, Namkhana, Patharpratima, Kultali, Gosaba &

Ishadrita Lahiri

THREAD: GROUND REPORT FROM NORTH 24 PARGANAS:This is Kalpana Bhunia. Her son is three years old. She lives in the Atpukur village of Minakhan. During #CycloneAmphan her husband died as

Tathagata Neogi, PhD

#Threads (1/15)The other day I tweeted about the role of the mangrove forests in #Sunderbans as our first, natural line of defence in sapping the strength of #cyclones and #tsunamis.

Got through to 5 friends in the #Sundarbans, only Jio SIMs seem to be working, IF the @PMCares, provide immediate relief to blocks that have been severely hit by #CycloneAmphan

#CycloneAmphan cracked Sundarban's lifelines: embankments. Why are these vital? Thread Maybe we need to be more imaginative in how these lifelines and lives on the peripheries are reconstructed @moefcc @MamataOfficial

Cascading, compounding crises. That's what's coming. https://twitter.com/dwallacewells/status/1245806732498087943 "The global system is currently on the brink of multiple simultaneous crises. Intersecting energy, economic and e