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 →
In the absence of true contagion character, the virologists are perplexed in developing a proper vaccine. In the late nineteenth century, a similar suppression of epidemiological information was done by the British colonial government that led to delay in developing vaccine for cholera epidemic.
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 →
Book Review Dagomar Degroot , The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1660-1720, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp.xxii, 364. During the last two decades there has been a deluge of research on environmental history that use traditional historical sources and records along with studies of changes... Continue Reading →
विपुल सिंह आधुनिक विश्व में हम कई प्रकार की प्रकृति सम्बंधी समस्याओं से जूझ रहे हैं। पार्यावरण इतिहास इन समस्याओं को ऐतिहासिक परिपेक्ष्य में समझता है। इतिहास की इस नई विधा में हाल के दिनों में 'एंथ्रोपोसीन' शब्द काफी प्रचलित हुआ है । इस शब्द को प्रायः मानव द्वारा पर्यावरण पर पड़ रहे प्रभाव से... Continue Reading →
पुस्तक समीक्षा विपुल सिंह जेरेमी जे. श्मिट, जल: प्रचुरता, कमी और सुरक्षा मानवता के युग में (सेज, नई दिल्ली, 2018), पृ. 308. सम्पूर्ण विश्व में अब सूखा बार-बार पड़ने लगा है । जलवायु वैज्ञानिक जलवायु परिवर्तन के परिणामस्वरूप पड़ने वाले प्रकृति के इन अनियंत्रित व्यवहारों... Continue Reading →
