Cyclone Aila – ENDISSA

Is rural economy thriving in post-Aila Sunderbans, India?

By Dayabati Roy | January 20, 2019January 23, 2019 by Dayabati Roy

This question began to haunt me since a doctoral student who himself is from the Sunderbans told me that the cyclone Aila (2009) had helped their economy to prosper. Hearing this I was stunned. I never imagined that the cyclone Aila, which had devastated the economy of Sunderbans and uprooted thousands of people from their…

Bangladesh Cyclone Aila

Environmental displacement and socio-economic status in Khulna, Bangladesh

By Jasim Uddin | January 20, 2019January 20, 2019 by Jasim Uddin

I recently traveled to Khulna city and tried to experience life in one of its slums the way locals do through ethnographic research. My specific intention was to learn about the socio-economic lives of the migrants who had left their area of origin due to environmental reasons. During the first few days of my fieldwork,…