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Dear Pandit ji,
We, the Eco Club students, immensely enjoy your monthly publication Gobar Times (GT), and find it very useful. We would appreciate a lot if you could make it bi-monthly and also have its Hindi version, as our school is primarily a Hindi-medium school and more students can have access to the information and perspective that you provide through Gobar Times. Gobar Times is unique for it is the only publication that is exclusively for children and solely caters to the environmental issues, inspiring ideas and thoughts in our growing and creative minds! Once in Hindi, it will reach out to lakhs of students in all the government schools in Delhi. There can be greater participation from all these students also.
Principal, teachers and students
Sister Nivedita SKV,
New Delhi, Sept 2007
... you cannot imagine the help I got from GT while preparing for a play on water
Ernest Chingaipe,
Zambia, Jan 2000
B’day wishes!
Dear Pandit ji,
Congratulations Panditji, for the 10th Birthday of Gobar Times. I am a regular reader of your esteemed journal since last 10 years. It is really a matter of proud that we have such journals which solve and give the right answer about our environment related issues. The information given is very useful and also related to our day-to-day activities. GT is fully devoted towards its responsibility and working in keen area of environment. It gives very good examples to understand the basic things of environment. It speaks about most of the global environmental issues in a very soft and down to earth language with examples, so that people understand the things.
Dr. S S GARG
Head – Env, Health and Safety
Prakash Industries Ltd, Champa, Chhattisgarh
Dear Pandit ji,
I have been with you since the beginning. It has been a wonderful idea to integrate our 'chi-chi Gobar' with the 'hi-fi Times'. Perhaps having a go at the modern world, while securing us to our traditional value systems. You have not only been entertaining, but always informative. And it is not the children who alone learnt from you, it was also us, the adults, who many a time take things for granted. Thankyou and wish you decades and decades of publication.
V K Uniyal
Kerala
Dear Pandit ji,
Congrats, GT turns 10. I have seen it develop from pages to booklet form. Though I teach M.Tech to environment students, whenever I receive DTE, I go through GT first. The ways in which difficult issues are dealt amuses me. To read Panditji’s views and concerns gives me a whale of a time. Thanks to the hardworking CSE team for keeping us updated on environmental issues. Cheers to GT!
Nivedita Kaul
Dept. of Civil Engg,
MNIT Jaipur
PS: Many more letters have come to us. We will share them with you in the next issue. Thankyou readers! |
Dear Pandit ji,
You are helping me become more environmentally aware and protect the environment in many ways:
1. I’ve stopped littering around
2. I’ve stopped wasting electricity
3. I’ve started planting trees
Not to forget, I love GT, too.
Harneeta Sandhu
Chandigarh, July 1999
Dear Pandit ji,
Gobar Times is a very good publication. Only it is getting too heavy. Please make it simpler for us kids to understand. We have started to save water at home:
1. We make our mother save the rinse water from the washing machine and reuse it the next day for the first wash cycle.
2. We have put a brick (which saves two litres of water) in the flush tank of our toilet.
Ananjeet, Jaileen and Prabhleen
New Delhi, May 2004
Dear Pandit ji,
I think that Gobar Times must be made compulsary from class 3 to 10 so that from childhood, kids would be alerted about the causes and consequences of pollution.
Jaideep Singh
Jethra, Pune
Dear Pandit ji,
I was truly impressed by the article ‘Down the Roads in India’ in the latest edition of Gobar Times. The writer must truly be commended for the in-depth coverage he/she has achieved in the simplistic way.
I would like to share some more information on the impact of poor road planning that I have come across, which you may also be aware of. In the desert areas of Rajasthan, the Bishnois have been exemplary in their commitment towards the preservation of the desert ecology. However, the “good” roads developed by the Rajasthan government have been causing major problems. They block the flow of water, above and below the surface, into the natural lakes and rivulets that once existed in plenty, and were the source of drinking and irrigation waters for the people and the animals. Most of these water bodies have dried up. And as these water and food sources vanished, there was a major reduction in the population of the once widespread species such as Chinkaras, wolves, peacocks and so on. In addition, street dogs and the English Babool plant have wrecked absolute havoc on this once carefully preserved ecosystem. This is a very rudimentary picture of what is happening here.
Rohit Pathania
June 2007
Dear Pandit ji,
I was really pleased about the Gobar Times issue dated 15 March 1999. The issue has taken me to the pinnacle and taught me the lesson that every drop counts to make an ocean. I have stopped burning crackers, I use a bicycle for traveling, and try to recycle all I can. Thus, I, in my small little way, am trying to save the planet. Hope your wonderful supplement, as well as the magazine Down To Earth (DTE) goes a long way in making our dear planet a better place to live in.
Navneeth P,
Bangalore, May 1999
...Until I began reading GT, I was an armchair environmentalist. I am now a practicing one.
N Ram Gopal,
Lecturer in Economics,
AU , Jan 2000
Dear Pandit ji,
Like a newly born baby is lovelier than either of the parents, your first issue of Gobar Times was indeed attractive and full of information. I am going to share all its information with children of our central school.
We at Narora, unlike many Delhi-ites, are not unfamiliar with cow-dung cakes. I will share the information with the humble villagers who are sparing the nation of nearly 2000MW electricity, heat and tonnes of chemical fertilisers by using cow dung. There is need to involve children at an early age. Your cartoon on polythene bags was very appealing. We look forward to future issues and sharing our experiences with you.
Ramesh Malik,
Narora Atomic Power Project,
Jul 1998
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