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Beware, microplastics in bottled mineral water.....! W ater is the indispensable part of the biosphere and nearly all the living organism living on earth depends purely on water for its metabolism. I n 2017, it was found that nearly 71% of the global population (5.3 billion people) used a safely managed drinking, free from contamination. Sharp geographic, sociocultural and economic inequalities persist, not only between rural and urban areas but also in towns and cities where people living in low-income, informal, or illegal settlements usually have less access to improved sources of drinking-water than other residents (WHO, 2018).  G lobally 785 million people lack even a basic drinking-water service, including 144 million people who are dependent on surface water. Globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with faeces. Contaminated water can transmit diseases such diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio. Contaminated drin...

The great Bengal famine is the most catastrophic event which took place during the British colonial period in present West Bengal in India in 1943. The famine devastated the lives of million people and also shattered the socio-economic status of Bengali society. The Rangpur, Dinajpur and Jalpaiguri districts of Bengal were the most suffered regions due to the famine and peoples mostly suffered from hunger, epidemics and  mal-nutrition. The great famine nearly killed  3 million peoples and the cause of the famine was merely not due to drought or natural event but colonial biopolitics as per research and studies. Pic: Relief committee at Kolkata during 1943 and investigation behind the cause of great famine The genesis of great Bengal famine had many divergent opinions from economists, scholars and leaders. According to economist B.M. Bhatia in his book “Famines in India: A Study in Some Aspects of the Economic History of India, 1860-1965" categorized the Bengal famine as a...