With the considerable discussions on COP15 arising out of the meetings at Bangkok, Bonn, Barcelona and elsewhere and a global community engaging in the debates and following it through the net, I am left wondering what exactly is it that we will be discussing at Copenhagen? Especially what will India be speaking and expecting? Will… [Read more…]
November 7, 2009
I have been reading intensely (not as much quantitatively as much as I would have wanted to) on the climate change negotiations leading to Copenhagen and various other related topics like technology and the legislation’s being proposed. I would maybe not express myself as I find below, had I found some credible amount of diversity… [Read more…]
November 1, 2009
Yesterday I attended a meeting organised by The Committee for the Release of Binayak Sen (CRBS) as recorded right below my post. (interestingly the event doesn’t find feature in the papers today even as far more frivolous news covers the pages.) I was already aware of the atrocities being carried out by the Indian state… [Read more…]
November 1, 2009
I read the following story at the Guardian, and couldnt help feeling a bit amused http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/27/economy-recession-car-industry-bankers Till when will this charade go on? Lets accept it that our current developmental models are just not sustainable. Forget sustainability from the environmental perspective. They are just not sustainable from a very fundamental human need point of you… [Read more…]
October 16, 2009
Its been the usual flurry of email discussions around the process of getting genetically modified brinjal into the Indian market. In the argument below I am not giving up on the efforts but just highlighting the very obvious inconsistencies, without addressing which we are just shadow boxing. The same format repeats itself on every issue.… [Read more…]
October 13, 2009
I went through a multiple set of emotions and thoughts after watching Age of the Stupid. And one of those was the almost complete unlikeliness of the situation being as grave and desolate in 2055 as shown in the movie. Humanity has been a more than superb adapter over the years. The do gooders may… [Read more…]
September 19, 2009
This post is meant to request and stir those who are bit too extra religious about their Durga Pooja to spare a thought for conservation of the tiger. I have over the years been very angered with the complete indifference of 95 percent of Hindus to the very animals that they revere (or ones at… [Read more…]
July 19, 2009
I had a very momentous trip to Nashik on 17th July 2009. Shantaram Shenai (Shantu) was the gracious host and the purpose was to showcase to Dr. Rebello and myself the ‘immense’ progress made in treating the sewage of Nashik city by using the Biosanitizer technology. [within the same link do read about the US… [Read more…]
March 30, 2009
Read with interest two posts in TOI today. Demolition of flyover gets under way on April 3 NCP leader dumps garbage at Thane civic headquarters One matter relating presumably only to traffic but having a significant waste aspect to itself and the other a waste matter at heart. In the case of the Thane matter… [Read more…]
March 24, 2009
On March 19th I along with Janak Daftary of Jal Birdari and Mr. Jagdish Gandhi met MMRDA officials at the site of the retaining wall that is being built next to the Vakola Nala mangroves – follow the picture and details below http://mumbaimangroves.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/mmrda-destroying-mangroves/ The meeting was inconclusive but valuable all the same. As far as… [Read more…]
November 8, 2009
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