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Contents
Editorial Perspective 7
Vajpayee Passes Pway: End of an Era of Gentility in Politics
About this Issue on Disaster Management
1. North-East Scan
Let’s Talk about Climate Justice 11
Patricia Mukhim
Recognizing Multiple Community Affiliations:
A Way out of Identity Conflicts in Northeast India 14
M.P. Bezbaruah
This Song Must not Fade 17
Pradip Phanjoubam
2. Disaster Management in India: Problems and Prospects 19
Prof. N. Vinod Chandra Menon
3. Critical Pedagogy of Disaster Research 33
Amita Singh
4. Disaster Risk Governance and MODDI Effect 47
Prof. Santosh Kumar
5. NDRF: Saviour in Disasters 53
K.M. Singh
6. Challenges of Disaster Management Act 2005 with
Special References of Flood Control—Need for an
Alternative Disaster Management Policy 60
Pankaj Kumar Jha
7. Revisiting Burhi Gandak Breach at Begampur in
Samastipur District of Bihar-1986 70
Dinesh Kumar Mishra