The Brahmaputra, or more precisely, the Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra-Jamuna river basin, carries a volume of water greater than the combined flow of the 20 largest rivers in Europe, a greater volume than any river barring the Amazon and the Congo. Moreover, owing to the immense potential of the river, there is a race to exploit the river’s capacity to produce energy, to establish the competitive claims of prior use, to build dams, diversions, and barrages to harvest the river’s power. This session “Science of the Brahmaputra” is, therefore, an endeavour to understand how science can help in understanding the river better to be able to address its many challenges.
Guests:
Lei Xie, Professor, Institute of Governance, Shandong University, China
Mohammad Rezaur Rahman, Professor, Institute of Water and Flood Management, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
Arup Kumar Sharma, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Music:
Bistirno Parore (Assamese and Bengali versions) by Bhupen Hazarika; Nila Nodir by Archana Mahanta
Host:
Anamika Barua, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
Coordinating team:
Natasha Hazarika, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
Arundhati Deka, Research Associate, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
Diksha Verma, Student, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
Aryan Rathod, Student, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India

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