What would you do if an earthquake hits now?,” Amod Mani Dixit, an earthquake expert, asked Bernard Amadei while passing through the middle of a dark narrow underpass in Dhabagal in Patan area on Monday morning. Amadei, a science envoy of the US Department of State who was taking part …
What would you do if an earthquake hits now?,” Amod Mani Dixit, an earthquake expert, asked Bernard Amadei while passing through the middle of a dark narrow underpass in Dhabagal in Patan area on Monday morning. Amadei, a science envoy of the US Department of State who was taking part …
Ahmedabad: There is a dazzling field of mirrors that you can find near the vast saltpans of the Little Rann. It is like a sparkling oasis in the desert — much like a gleaming silver screen covering the vast desolate white sand around. This is Charanka village in Patan, where …
thousands of saltpan workers, called Agarias, from 107 villages in Gujarat's Rajkot, Surendranagar, Patan and Kutch districts face displacement with the Gujarat forest department serving them an eviction notice in December 2006. The workers were asked to leave the area, which falls under a wild ass sanctuary and told that …
