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Select articles, studies and documents that throw light on super cyclone of 1999 and what makes Odisha so disaster-prone
| Floods, cyclones, heat waves and droughts have made Orissa the disaster capital of India. Is it just natural or is the state paying a price for climate change and environmental degradation? | ||||
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| Kolkata-based architect Laurent Fournier tells how ceilings can float and why bamboo-reed-mud makes more sense than brick-concrete-steel | ||||
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| In October 1999, two cyclones devastated coastal Orissa, leaving nearly 30,000 dead in 14 districts. Immediately after, the Orissa State Disaster Mitigation Authority (osdma) was formed | ||||
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| They are there—each residential area has its mentally disturbed people; each family has anecdotes of crazy relatives. Nobody wants to acknowledge them | ||||
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| Report focuses on Orissa cyclone's mind-jolting fallout | ||||
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| The loss of life in the super cyclone that hit the Orissa coast last year was not an 'act of God'. | ||||
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| A super cyclone has left Orissa shattered and blown away India's claims of managing itself during a natural disaster | ||||
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| The Union ministry of environment and forests has formulated a Rs 241-crore project for ecological rehabilitation of the cyclone-ravaged | ||||