Disputed Bay of Bengal island 'disappears'

[prithwidw]

Global Warming is a very serious issue for BD.

I mean just as Taliban threaten our national security exactly like that Rising water level threatens BD.It's now the time that BD devises some strategy to combat Rising water level or khuda-na-khuasta it could be too late.

Yep. Global Warming is not only a serious issue for BD but for all nations. Bangladesh is just on the worst side of it. There are shrinking land masses and what not. They should focus more on clean and renewable energy.

 

[Adwitiya]

One Bakhtiyar Khilji with 18 horse men showed up and your forefathers ran like cowards so do you really want his deciple there? Think before asking for it.

Ikhtiyar Uddin Muhammad Bin Bakhtiyar Khalji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Are you talking about this sane person

He was one of the military generals of Qutb-ud-din Aybak. Muhammad Khilji conquered Bihar in 1193. Bakhtiyar and his troops burned and destroyed one of the oldest universities in the world,the famous Buddhist university at Nalanda (in modern Bihar State) in the year 1193. Here he comitted documented executions and had the monks beheaded, and others burned. As he is said to have asked if a Quran was in the library upon finding out that there was none, he ordered the executions. Later, he also brought Bengal’s ruler Lakshman Sen under his authority, and captured his capital in 1205. He is the founder of the Khilji dynasty and is considered to be the first Muslim ruler of Bengal.


Are you saying you guys are disciples of a person who beheaded monks......... How brave. I think Chinese should also read this

 

[prithwidw]

Are you talking about this sane person

He was one of the military generals of Qutb-ud-din Aybak. Muhammad Khilji conquered Bihar in 1193. Bakhtiyar and his troops burned and destroyed one of the oldest universities in the world,the famous Buddhist university at Nalanda (in modern Bihar State) in the year 1193. Here he comitted documented executions and had the monks beheaded, and others burned. As he is said to have asked if a Quran was in the library upon finding out that there was none, he ordered the executions. Later, he also brought Bengal’s ruler Lakshman Sen under his authority, and captured his capital in 1205. He is the founder of the Khilji dynasty and is considered to be the first Muslim ruler of Bengal.


Are you saying you guys are disciples of a person who beheaded monks......... How brave. I think Chinese should also read this

Isn't it very obvious from his postings on this forum?

 

[paritosh]

Global Warming deserves more serious attention than being shown...
it's not that we are void of coasts...we have more to loose...
let us hope to live our lives without seeing the world come to an end..as it surely is going to and nothing can be done about it.

 

[prithwidw]

I am saving each month to build a boat, a medium sized one. So that when apocalypse strikes, I am safe and can save a few.

 

[Vassnti]

Though global warming is a serious problem the dissaperence of the island is more likley to be because of subsidence than sea level rise.

With the island previously 2m above sea level and the average rise in the bay of begal of 3mm a year it would take roughly 600 years for the island to be covered by rising waters.

Sadly some places arround the bay of bengal are sinking at the same time the water is rising causing a serious problem.

The JU wing had conducted a 10-year study in and around the Bay of Bengal and concluded that the sea is rising at 3.14 mm a year in the Sunderbans against a global average of 2 mm, threatening low-lying areas of India and Bangladesh.

"In places like east Sagar Island the sea is rising more due to easterly tilt of subsidence. The rise near the tiger habitat at Pakhiralay is at an average of 5 mm annually, while towards Khulna in Bangladesh it is 10 mm," said Sanyal who is a member of the National Coastal Zone Management Authority.

ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Rising Seas Threaten Bengal's Deltaic People - IPS ipsnews.net

Sadly if we pick a figure of 3000m for a height of Kashmir at 3mm a year we still have to wait 1 million years for a resolution.

 

[toxic_pus]

Well, a few weeks ago I was debating with a Bangladeshi (and an Indian) about this Talpatti island and India's position on it. At one point I had made the following comment:

It is precisely because of complexity of geo-politics, neither country wants to go for neutral arbitrator. A good example would be Pakistan's misadventure with Indus-Water treaty. The verdict of the neutral arbitrator has left Pakistan with no room for negotiation and extracting any concession from India. In a sense, they have been left with a fait accompli. South Talpatty comes close to the scenario. If today BD agrees for neutral arbitrator, BD will flat out plain loose. Thats why you will not catch GoB raising the decibel on Talpatty except for routine protests and claims. India too doesn't want to make too much noise, because in the long run, the island may just disappear completely. Thats why it is almost always in the back-burner and gets a mention in the passing.

Damn. Now I know what it feels like to be Nostradamus.

 

[prototype]

i think this is raw's propaganda

 

[su-47]

Actually either side should be glad that the island was left unoccupied. If that dispute had been solved, one side would have got the island, constructed on it, and then have the whole thing become a new wreck diving site.

This is mother nature's way of letting us all know that whatever territory we are fighting for, at the end of the day, it all belongs to this planet. It is due to human refusal to get along with each other that we have divided this entire planet into 'us' and 'them'.