The alleged ban by the government on world-renowned Swedish writer Jan Myrdal to visit India is shocking. The official version is that Myrdal is a Maoist supporter and he had indulged in anti-state activity and that is the reason a ban on his future visit is being contemplated. The 85 year old writer denied […]
A perfect ecological balance
The environment refers to natural things around us which sustain our life, such as the atmosphere of the earth, fresh and healthy air and drinkable water etc. the define environment we may say that it is an outer physical and biological system in which man and other organisms exist with many interesting components. The most […]
Arsenic in their Glass!
Hundreds of people in a central Indian village are battling cancer after their drinking water was contaminated by arsenic. Chhattisgarh state of India has millions of tons of iron, bauxite and other minerals. The huge mineral deposits have, of late, attracted millions of rupees as investment from industrial groups. The government, which favors fast […]
Lagoons and Backwater
If Kerala was not real, someone would have to invent it. It is a myth, a legend, a dark God’s presence of the past; it is the clashing, confused India of today; it is the proud thrust of a Thumba rocket streaking into the cloudless dawn. Here, dead centre on the state coastline, the […]
Same Old, Same Old: Globalism, Politics and the BP Disaster
It seems according to the ongoing news reports (over a month now) of the BP disaster that the solution the federal government has come up with in order to hold BP accountable for the latest contamination of U.S. waters and fiscal impact on the American public is to hold another public tongue lashing at the […]
Deepwater Horizon Rig Disaster Threatens Drilling
BP Plc last September tapped into a new oilfield called Tiber, estimated to hold at least 3 billion barrels of crude, or six months’ worth of U.S. consumption. Discovered through seismic imaging and data crunched on a supercomputer, the field is almost six miles (9.6 kilometers) beneath the Gulf of Mexico’s floor, in a spot […]