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		<title>Repairing Kosi’s breaches not a longterm solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sudhirendar Sharma posits here that embankments have been more often problems, the root cause he contends, not the longterm solution to tame rivers like Kosi. He suggests to live with the flood rather than implementing the technology-centered solutions for controlling the course of a river. &#8216;Room for the river&#8217; concept as being implemented by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koshiflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4693663&amp;post=143&amp;subd=koshiflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please Contribute in the various Relief Funds</title>
		<link>http://koshiflood.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/please-contribute-in-the-various-relief-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Appeal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.&#8221; &#8211; Tolstoy That means solidarity we have to show. Let us begin how you could contribute. Any action on your part is a contribution. Please follow the highlighted links to know how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koshiflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4693663&amp;post=56&amp;subd=koshiflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Relief Funds for Nepal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.friendsofnepal-losangeles.org/ is organizing some flood relief funds. FON- LA will match all contributions received (upto $2500.00) for the relief efforts. We are looking to raise at least $5000.00. The funds will be sent to the Nepal Red Cross Society and/or the Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund in Nepal. Please click here to donate online using [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koshiflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4693663&amp;post=106&amp;subd=koshiflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Relief Funds for Bihar</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://biharfloodrelief2008.blogspot.com/ suggests how to contribute by one of their posts: How to transfer donation? Online –Transfer your donations to ICICI bank Name: Ashok Kumar Sharma, A/C Number: 005301022273, Branch: Jayanagar/Bangalore Please mention flood relief and your name in remarks section while transferring funds Also mention your name in the comments (will help us track). After [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koshiflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4693663&amp;post=104&amp;subd=koshiflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flood victims face caste discrimination</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7610999.stm Hundreds of thousands of people are still homeless after floods hit the Indian state of Bihar last month. Some of the victims face the additional hardships that come from being members of the low caste dalit community. Rajan Khosla of the charity Christian Aid has been meeting some of them in the village of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koshiflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4693663&amp;post=129&amp;subd=koshiflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kosi breaches repeatedly, governments merely fiddle</title>
		<link>http://koshiflood.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/kosi-breaches-repeatedly-governments-merely-fiddle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dinesh Mishra argues that the governments haven&#8217;t learnt anything from the mistakes of the past. In this chronicled history of embankment breaches, distressing is the fact that even rodents and foxes are not controllable by the state, who mulls over the integrated management of flood and the related socio-economic-political problems? Source: http://www.indiatogether.org/2008/sep/gov-kosi.htm 9 September 2008 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koshiflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4693663&amp;post=137&amp;subd=koshiflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nepali gov&#8217;t forms high-level flood relief panel</title>
		<link>http://koshiflood.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/nepali-govt-forms-high-level-flood-relief-panel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another panel and some more discussion. Unless people keep these powers under pressure by grassroots movements and continue the discussion going, hardly one can expect the end of these man-made disasters. Source: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6493302.html The Nepali government on Thursday constituted a high-level panel to manage and monitor the post-flood situation in southeastern Nepal. Emerging from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koshiflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4693663&amp;post=101&amp;subd=koshiflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bindeshwari Singh blames it on &#8220;Technical Failure&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://koshiflood.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/bindeshwari-singh-blames-it-on-technical-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not done enough technical research to know the amount of truth present in this article, its highly India oriented too leaving Nepal&#8217;s problems aside, but no one can doubt the decaying of several state apparatus and gross irresponsible behavior of state bureaucracy run by dominating castes and corrupt criminals. The state waits for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koshiflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4693663&amp;post=122&amp;subd=koshiflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunsari Officials Hiding Info to Cover Up Failures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunsari (South Nepal) has been facing problems because of state bureaucracy. Information/Power dyad works &#8211; isn&#8217;t it? Source:  http://tinyurl.com/684jst Sunsari Officials Hiding Info to Cover Up Failures    Somnath Bastola Itahari, September 3:After failing to ensure effective rescue and relief operation in flood affected areas in Sunsari, responsible government officials have been found disseminating wrong information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koshiflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4693663&amp;post=94&amp;subd=koshiflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pain In Bihar, Agony In Orissa : Vidya Bhushan Rawat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should there be any doubt that attack upon adivasis and Christians in Orissa by the Hindutava forces is an equally worse tragedy as the man-made disastrous flood impact in Bihar and Nepal? Vidya Bhushan Rawat analyzes the pain and agony. Source: http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat010908.htm East India Company started from the Eastern Coast of India which is Bengal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koshiflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4693663&amp;post=76&amp;subd=koshiflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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