Excellent Article in The Deccan Chronicle - Come On, India, Take This Challenge Up!

India is a country where most parts get well over 6 hours of sunshine a day for 300 plus days a year. There is huge potential in the country to not only generate electricity using the light of the sun, but also to cut down sharply on hydrocarbon fuel imports, of which India is one of the biggest in the world. The positive thing about this is that current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is a huge supporter of solar power. He is also someone who loves a challenge. Hopefully, this will ensure that he takes the challenge of doing what Chile is doing wholeheartedly, and brings India to the very top among nations generating electricity from the light of the sun!

50% suffer kidney ailments | Deccan Chronicle | 2010-04-21

50% suffer kidney ailments | Deccan Chronicle | 2010-04-21

One more extreme horror from Andhra Pradesh that has implications far beyond the farmers and their families who are suffering from kidney ailments due to an overuse of pesticides. I wonder if those who eat this rice well beyond Andhra's borders are aware of what they are consuming as well? Or, if there are studies that show how many people are infected with these dangerous pesticides as consumers in the end? Thanks to the Deccan Chronicle for highlighting this fact in India. Under normal circumstances, the first that any Indian would have heard about this would have been when some Wessetrn country decided to ban Sona Masuri or some other type of rice grown in Andhra from sale and importation.

In India, the law allows "permissible quantities" of rat shit to be included in rice that is sold for human consumption. My guess is that the Food Ministry (whose head seems more interested in furthering his daughter's political career and in running the cricket board than in ensuring that food in India is safe) simply doesn't care about this slow poisoning of the Indian population.

Shame on you, Government of India! The Indian people deserve better!