By Subir Dey (PhD, JNU), Assistant Professor in History, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India

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From a contributor’s point of view, Soutasiadisaster.net plays a very crucial role. The platform compels practitioners and researchers to communicate their expertise in plain speak. It provides the much-needed challenge to any esoteric form of knowledge to be democratised, effective in communication, but not short of depth. This is a very simple but hard path to walk on- the balance of theory and praxis. Southasiadisasters.net does it with grace and sensitivity, which is much needed in our dystopic times.

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