Archive for the ‘pollution’ Category

DRILL, BABY, DRILL – It’s a rich man’s world

Hindi movies in past showed rich and really influential people who could do anything they wanted – kill someone in the middle of a market, grab someone’s land for non payment of loan, kidnap a girl for sex and just about anything without having to worry about the consequence.  And why should they be worried [...]

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Delhi air – clean enough for us, not for foreign players

Hindustan times published an article today that about the air of Delhi. The pollution in the air exceeds the permitted or the “safe” limits. In the month of October we are going to host the Commonwealth Games and the pollution level needs to be brought down before that. Another article in Hindustan Times talks about [...]

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Vedanta’s quest for money vs Dongria Kondh

“There are a lot of things that I didn’t know existed but I desperately need them.” Calvin has very accurately described the mentality of an average human being.
When we can afford it, we always have more of everything then we need. The quest for more is what is responsible for the growth we have seen [...]

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Pay per litter

Is it okay to install a meter similar to the parking meters which you can feed for throwing your garbage? Imagine that meter on a nature trail, you put a one Rupee coin in it and you can throw you empty soda can there. You can put a five Rupees coin and you can throw [...]

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