Meghalaya

Jan

2020

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In the quest for the hidden past

In-Deptharchaeology, Climate Change, Dholavira, drought, Geology, Geophysics, Gujarat, Harappa, Himalayan, Indus, Indus Valley, Kutch, Meghalaya, Rann, river, rivers, snow fed

Hindustan Times Economic Times India Today The Hindu BusinessLine Republic Swarajya The Sentinel Assam The Week Dainik Jagran UNI Yahoo News Outlook India TV Times of India Millennium Post Indian researchers have for the first time connected the decline of Harappan city Dholavira to the disappearance of a Himalayan snow-fed river which once flowed…

Nov

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Dance of the rain

In-DepthIIT Kharagpur, Indian monsoons, Indian summer monsoon, Meghalaya, Mughals. Little Ice Age, rain, stalagmite, Wadia Institute, Wah Shikar cave

The Hindu, Times of India (Kol), Times of India Reduced rainfall was among the factors that created multicentennial-scale drier conditions that may have contributed to the Indus Valley deurbanization. Lack of rainfall is believed to have been among the reasons for the social upheaval and the eventual fall of the Tang, Yuan and Ming dynasties of China. Drought interspersed with violent monsoon rains sounded the death knell of the Khmer empire of south-east Asia that flourished between 802 and 1431 CE. There can be no doubting the profound impact of the abrupt shifts of rainfall on human history – a fact…