विपुल सिंह सार: ज़्यादातर ऐसे क्षेत्रों से श्रमिकों का प्रवास हुआ है जहां लगभग पिछले पचास वर्षों से हरित क्रांति अपना सूत्रपात वृहत रूप से नहीं कर पायी । ऐसा इसलिए है क्योंकि नहर जैसे कारक, जो हरित क्रांति की सफलता के लिए महत्वपूर्ण हैं, इन क्षेत्रों में इसकी परिस्थितिकी के कारण नहीं पनप पाए।... Continue Reading →
विपुल सिंह मैं कई वर्षों से छात्रों को पर्यावरण इतिहास पर पाठ्यक्रम पढ़ा रहा हूं। पिछली शताब्दियों के केस स्टडीज के माध्यम से मैं उन्हें ऐतिहासिक गलतियों के बारे में बताता हूं और उन्हें पर्यावरण के समकालीन मुद्दों से जोड़ने की कोशिश करता हूं। पर्यावरणीय जाँच के विषय पर छात्रों के साथ शिक्षण और शोध... Continue Reading →
Vipul Singh About two million pilgrims from different parts of the world go on Hajj to Saudi Arabia every year. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic the country has restricted the entry of Hajj travellers.In 1865 too, when there was a major cholera epidemic outbreak in Mecca, which led to the death of 15000... Continue Reading →
Recent data suggest that in 2020 approximately 67 percent population of the globe are using mobile phones, numbering 5.24 billion. Starting from operating our home appliances remotely to switching on car engines while sitting at home, we have become dependent on it in every possible way. Mobile phones today is technologically very advanced and compact, but its journey has been very long.
Source: Sumita Roy Dutta CC BY-SA By Vipul Singh Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi The Covid-19 pandemic has posed a …Understanding Reverse Worker Migration during the Covid-19 Lockdown in India and the Green Revolution ABSTRACT: Coronavirus pandemic has led to reverse migration of workers to Bihar and UP, areas previously suffering from... Continue Reading →
Post-Covid World: Why I Think India Would Weather the Pandemic Storm? Vipul Singh ABSTRACT: India does have a disadvantage in terms of health, as the hospital support system is not as strong as the US and Europe. But she has a demographic dividend on her side. In post-Covid situation of the world India might have... Continue Reading →
Vipul Singh | Speaking History, no.2, 2020 History of Idea of Contagion and Germ Theory Vipul Singh Book Review John Waller. The Discovery of the Germ: Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think About Disease, Cambridge: Icon Books, 2002. Pages 200. ABSTRACT: Disease has surfaced as a key subject in environmental history especially after Alfred... Continue Reading →
Migrate to Survive the Pandemic Times Vipul Singh The daily wagers are not ready to join the chorus with the urban middle class. Migration to them is a way to survive the difficult times of pandemic.Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion? Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly, everyone going home lost in... Continue Reading →
UNIFIED WORLD OF EPIDEMICS: A RELOOK Vipul Singh The contagion has unified the world yet again. Unlike the earlier epidemics in which sea and road travels were responsible for the disease transmission, the air travel has played a key role in COVID-19 becoming a pandemic. Images speak louder than words. Almost all the newspapers published... Continue Reading →
Francis Buchanan (1762-1829) was a British surveyor who had recorded the flora and fauna, ecological setting, society and economy of four major districts of modern Bihar in great detail in early nineteenth century – Patna-Gaya, Purnea, Shahbad and Bhagalpur. Buchanan was instructed by the East India Company to proceed through Bengal in anti-clockwise direction all... Continue Reading →
