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06/09/2026

FOLK recently conducted a workshop session on Understanding Community for Meaningful and Ethical Engagement, with a group of students from the Community Outreach Committee at O.P. Jindal University, Jindal School of Psychology & Counselling. FOLK's Director Madhusudan Singh led the session.
We talked through FOLK's work across the Himalayas, and the same lesson kept coming up, if you only look for what's missing during community intervention, that's all you'll ever find. Look a little longer and there's usually real knowledge and strength sitting right there too within the community.

The questions this group asked were sharper than we expected. Really good session.
Thank you, Dr. Kannu Priya Kamoj ( Dr. Kannu Priya Kamboj | Positive Psychologist ), for putting this together and organising this meaningful session.

29/08/2026

One degree is all it takes. Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 11,000 times more water than every river on Earth combined, and the line between "frozen" and "flowing" is just one degree of warming. This is the scale we're playing with.

28/08/2026

Nepal just lost entire settlements in minutes to a glacier collapse. No rain, no siren, no warning that mattered, just a mountain giving way and a valley disappearing.
Himachal has the exact same risk sitting quietly in our own backyard. Raja Ghepan Lake in Lahaul-Spiti has grown 176% in just 33 years, and a government report has already flagged it as a threat all the way down to Jammu & Kashmir and into Pakistan. It's not alone, Samudra Tapu, Vasuki, and Sangla lakes are following the same pattern, right here in our mountains.
This isn't a someday risk. It's a right-now one, and the people who'll pay for it have done almost nothing to cause it.

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26/08/2026

The land talks before it moves. Muddy water. Leaning trees. New cracks. Small signs — big warnings.
Know them. Watch for them. Know your way to higher ground before you need it

29/07/2026

Assam is flooding again. Not for the first time. Not even the fifteenth. Families are rebuilding homes they've already rebuilt before. Animals are wading through water that used to be their forest. And responders, stretched too thin, can't reach everyone in time.

We call it a "natural disaster," a phrase that lets everyone off the hook. It makes the flood sound like fate, something to accept and move past every year. But disaster studies has known this for decades: there is no such thing as a natural disaster. The flood is natural. The disaster is not.

A disaster happens when a hazard meets people who were already made vulnerable: by where they're forced to live, by wetlands filled in, by embankments built wrong, by warnings that never arrived. Nature only sets the stage. What turns it into a disaster is how ready we were, and how much we chose to care before the water rose.

Governments still call it natural. People still accept it as natural. That belief does quiet damage: it excuses the missing preparation, the same colony rebuilt on the same floodplain, without anyone asking why it flooded in the first place.

So don't let this blur into another headline. If even one part of it stays with you, don't stop there. Talk about it. Share it. Support the people working on the ground.

Some things shouldn't have to repeat to be believed. And disasters shouldn't have to keep being called natural to be prevented.

25/07/2026

It's amazing to see young Disaster Management students going straight into the field, they are not just collecting data for a research thesis, but capturing the real emotions and struggles of the communities they meet along the way. That's exactly what our two Research Interns, Nidhi Sharma and Aksh*t Thakur, from Punjab University, have done in Sainj.
They spent time with the people here, listened to them, and turned their experiences into this short documentary. It's not just footage, it's the quiet courage of a community that faces floods and landslides, rebuilds each time, and still finds a way to smile through it.
Two disasters. One valley. And so many stories that rarely get told.
This one's for the people of Sainj, and for the students who cared enough to tell their story.

24/12/2025

Belonging vs. Owning

30/08/2025

The mountains are not angry; they are tired of being ignored!

06/07/2025

Disaster Development in Himachal Pradesh!

02/07/2025

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