Category: Enviroment Related

W’end Reading: Fake Notes, Trash, Brahma-Saraswati and AQ Khan

This is what I am reading this weekend. How Bengal towns are becoming transit points for fake notes West Bengal’s intelligence agencies have expressed concern that Pakistan-and Bangladesh-based racketeers are using the state’s Murshidabad...

Lavan Vajra & The Art of Rain-making

I was alerted to this wonderful story by my brother-in-law, Prashant.  An excerpt from Burnt tyres and salt leads to rain? (emphasis mine): …Dr Raja Marathe, IIT Bombay alumni and a former Naxal leader...

Nightmare at Noon*: Concluding the series

As I was fast-scanning the news headlines yesterday, a small item caught my eye. Writing in Rediff, Sanjay Jog noted …(in view of the water shortage) Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has introduced a 15 per...

Nightmare at Noon* – Water Wars

In this part of the “Nightmare at Noon” series, a look at why “Water” is the new “Oil”, the possibility of water scarcity leading to “Water Wars” in the future and China’s worrying plans...

PlayPumps – An unusual innovation in “Water”

Continuing the Nightmare at Noon series on “Water“, in this part, an unusual innovation to tackle the challenge of water accessibility. I first heard of PlayPumps about two years ago when I stumbled on...