Gujarat dam disaster recounted in new book "No One Had a Tongue to Speak" | Harvard Mag... - 1 views
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pjt111 taylor on 01 Mar 12"The dam collapse [in 1979] is one of the worst environmental disasters in history, and no one has heard about it,"--myself included. One of the policy responses to extreme climatic events is to suppress knowledge. ""This book is an attempt to tell the story of this place-western India in 1979-this monsoon, the government cover-up that unjustly silenced this narrative for too long..." 25,000 people died.