A long time ago I realized what McDonald’s and KFC had understood quite a while back; that, for an average person, the gratification of his tastebuds – if only for ten minutes- was more important than saving the world, being compassionate, stopping global warming or even looking after his own he...
When I was young, India was flooded with comic books of Archie, Superman and War. The two central pages and the back advertised things for sale in America: party treats, Halloween costumes. The maximum space was given to advertising seahorses for aquaria. For one dollar you could get 6 sea horses th...
A study conducted by Princeton University says that there has been a 36% rise in antibiotic use in all countries over the last 10 years – except in India, which has seen a rise of 62% and is now the largest consumer of antibiotics in the world.If these antibiotics were simply being taken by Indian...
The Environment Ministry is increasingly seen as a Ministry that understands nothing about the environment, wild life, water preservation, pollution control. Almost every decision that comes out of it is a destructive one, and it works on the basis of politics rather than science. Every vested ...
In an earlier article I talked about the miraculous effects of Panchgavya on crops. Dr K. Natarajan, who has written the book after years of experimenting with it, has also written a chapter on its effects on animals. After the studies on plants, his team started on animals and humans. For those who...
Every country is replete with innovations in policy: things that make life better for everyone. If we had a team in Niti Ayog, whose only job was to look through the Net and find these new strategies, then they could pass them on to the ministries.Perhaps the most important decision that was made in...
When you buy German cars you have given your consent to them for all the monkeys and humans they have maimed and killed. It has now been discovered that German automakers funded studies that had humans and monkeys inhaling diesel fumes. Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler have been exposed in a report publi...
It is a common misconception that any sort of agricultural development programme in India only means increase in production level helping the poor and marginal farmers by several government initiatives. To supply the farmers cheap inputs, enhancement of irrigation facilities, cheap loans, developmen...
Hardly a day passes when newspapers are not carrying the news about road accidents involving stray cattle or injury to an individual due to dog bite in a certain city or area. The murkier state is an outcome of the existence of 1.71 crore stray dogs and 58.87 lakh stray cattle (estimated as per the ...
Sweeping chunks of dust, sounds of tin roofs blowing up, utensils and clothes flying like saucers, tress uprooted, collapsing mud walls, and screaming winds – this was the deadliest dust storm to have hit northern India over decades. The speeding winds that had reached 130 km per hour took a...