Tauktae
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Covid and Climate Change Push South Asia Toward a Complex Emergency
By Sarang Shidore and Andrea Rezzonico As Cyclone Tauktae hurtled toward India’s west coast on May 17, a grim scenario outlined in Amitav Ghosh’s eloquent meditation on climate change, The Great Derangement, suddenly loomed as a distinct possibility. A direct hit on the megapolis of Mumbai, India’s financial capital, Ghosh wrote, could wreak damage far…