Outlook's Latest Issue: Deliver Us From Greed
- last year
As journalists, how are we supposed to perceive the trauma and the despair of the disasters, one witnessed or was part of? Outlook editor Chinki Sinha rightly asks, "How to write a disaster? Is it merely about the numbers or are there memories lying beneath the rubbles?"
Even before our memories could fade out the smile of the child who came out of the rubbles after more than 72 hours of struggle in devastated Turkey, another earthquake of 6.4 magnitude hit the country on February 20.
An earthquake—a natural hazard—becomes a disaster when people build homes, infrastructure and assets for their livelihoods without conforming to seismic safe building codes. But once they fall like a pack of cards, how does one begin in the aftermath of another disaster that brings back the trauma and the despair of the disasters, one witnessed or was part of, directly or indirectly?
Outlook’s latest issue, 'Deliver Us From Greed’, looks at how climate change, poor planning and mindless construction leads to catastrophic ‘natural’ disasters which are marked by greed and arrogance.
Even before our memories could fade out the smile of the child who came out of the rubbles after more than 72 hours of struggle in devastated Turkey, another earthquake of 6.4 magnitude hit the country on February 20.
An earthquake—a natural hazard—becomes a disaster when people build homes, infrastructure and assets for their livelihoods without conforming to seismic safe building codes. But once they fall like a pack of cards, how does one begin in the aftermath of another disaster that brings back the trauma and the despair of the disasters, one witnessed or was part of, directly or indirectly?
Outlook’s latest issue, 'Deliver Us From Greed’, looks at how climate change, poor planning and mindless construction leads to catastrophic ‘natural’ disasters which are marked by greed and arrogance.