Tag Archives : DISASTERS

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The politics of pessimism

This entry was posted in General and tagged apocalypse DISASTERS fear pessimism politicians politics the apocalypse on June 16, 2012 by pankaj.

Newspaper headlines and TV or radio news bulletins would have us believe erroneously that a new age has come upon us, the Age of Cassandra. People are being assailed not just with contemporary doom or past gloom, but with prophecies of disasters about to befall. The dawn of the new millennium has now passed; the […]

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MAKING EVERY DROP COUNT

This entry was posted in General Social or current affairs and tagged disaster DISASTERS drinking water floods irrigation water water resources on June 13, 2012 by my-matrimonial.com.

A. The history of human civilization is entwined with the history of the ways we have learned to manipulate water resources. As towns gradually expanded, water was brought from increasingly remote sources, leading to sophisticated engineering efforts such as dams and aqueducts. An the height of the Roman Empire, nine major systems, with an innovative […]

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Goya’s historic war

This entry was posted in General and tagged DISASTERS Disasters and War Photography Goya's war etchings hunger Napoleon's invasion of Spain realistic drawings war on September 19, 2011 by my-matrimonial.com.

DISASTERS, war, hunger and human suffering fanned the imagination of iconic 18th century Spanish artist Goya, who captured the horrors of Napoleon’s invasion of Spain on canvas, drawings and etchings. Now his legacy has traveled all the way to India. A comprehensive exposition of Goya’s wartime etchings, Chroniclers of All Wars: The Disasters and War […]

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