Cheetah in India
Region: India
After prolonged deliberations Government of India has decided to reintroduce the Cheetah in the country. As many as eighteen cheetahs will be sourced from Africa and will be introduced into three sites, viz. Kuno-P... more
Views: 2162This Raavan is welcome
Region: India
Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment & Forests, while addressing the media said the other day in Bhopal that he was generally called “Vikaas ka Raavan” (a destructive daemon in so far as dev... more
Views: 974Innocents caught up in climate-change jam
Region: India
N ot many in India would have heard of the Nenets who inhabit the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic Circle between the Kara Sea a... more
Views: 1385GDP growth with growing poverty
Region: IndiaThe forecasts for India’s high economic growth have been coming thick and fast. Only late last year the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development predicted a 5.9% growth for India in 2... more
Views: 2011Bhopal gas tragedy - the messy controversies
Region: IndiaAny natural or man-made disaster raises controversies. A disaster of the scale that Bhopal witnessed because of the leak of the lethal methyl isocynate (MIC) on one cold December morning in 1984 was sure to raise controver... more
Views: 2524Solar power is the best bet
Region: IndiaRecently we had a 16-hour power outage commencing from midnight until 4.00 next afternoon. The inverter saw us through the hot and stuffy night but it, too, lost its energy by the next afternoon. There was ... more
Views: 2887A Chinese lesson
Region: IndiaThe Time magazine, in one of its issues, before Barak Obama was to visit China in 2009, made a mention of a few things that he could learn from the Chinese. Among them were the Chinese habit of saving and the care that the... more
Views: 1255The multimillion rupee bribes
Region: IndiaOne wonders whether it is just coincidence. In at least three recent cases three different individuals were nabbed for asking for and accepting bribes of Rs. 2 crore (Rs. 20 million). Manjit Singh Bali, holding the very se... more
Views: 1529Beating back the Maoists
Region: India“No roads lead into Naxal-affected areas” screamed a headline recently in a national daily. An internal review the other day at the Indian Planning Commission revealed what has been known all these years. Among... more
Views: 1102Civil society checkmates politicians' shenanigans
Region: India
It is seldom that civil society in India is able to stall governments from executing their improper plans. It was only recently that in Bhopal, the capital of the central Indian province of Madhya Pradesh, that it ... more
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A retired Indian civil servant who took to writing on local issues, eventually ending up as a citizen journalist and a social activist
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