Ganga
Newsletter No. 63; IRBMS
November, 2017-April, 2018
Dr. Dhrubajyoti Ghosh
existential crisis.
Commentary
With summer looming large on the country, water
When country is suffering from ecological disasters crisis
then we lost one of our valued members and particularly in the Northern & Western states. The
guiding force, noted ecologist and Kolkata wetland groundwater condition is precarious across India
warrior, Dr. Dhrubajyoti Ghosh in February 2018. especially in densely populated Indo-Gangetic
This was painful news and, indeed, a great loss for basin and Peninsular India. In the midst of this,
IRBMS; it is a great loss to the world of Ecoscience the Cauvery water sharing between Tamilnadu and
indeed. Nation has lost one the finest humane Karnataka has risen the political temperature
ecologist at a time when all the country is facing further with latest Supreme Court order. So much
severe crisis of environmental and ecological so, during his last visit to Tamilnadu, Prime
degradation and downtrodden people are facing Minister Mr. Modi has to face black flag protest in
started
surfacing
across
the
India,
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