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Dear Pandit ji,
I came across Gobar Times while doing a web search and was very impressed by it. I am interested in contributing articles for your magazine. Please let me know the procedure involved and other details.
Buggy
Via e-mail
Dear Buggy ji,
Thank you for appreciating Gobar Times. If you want to contribute articles for the magazine, send your ideas to panditji@cseindia.org. We will get back to you after going through them.
Dear Pandit ji,
My name is Mayur Vyas. Pandit ji, I am very confused about the difference between global warming and climate change. As per my understanding, I know that climate change occurs due to global warming. Please spend some time to clear my doubts.
Mayur Vyas
Via e-mail
Dear Mayur Vyas ji,
Many people use the terms ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’ interchangeably. But, they are two distinct concepts.
Global warming refers to the increase of Earth’s average surface temperature and lower atmosphere, due to a build-up of greenhouse gases (like water vapour, carbon dioxide, ozone and methane) in the atmosphere. This is known as the ‘greenhouse effect’.
Climate change, on the other hand, is a broader term that refers to long-term changes in climate, including average temperature and precipitation. Global warming is one of the main causes of changes in climate, such as
in cloud cover, precipitation, wind patterns, and the duration of seasons.
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Dear Pandit ji,
I like the way Gobar Times presents the various facts about environment. It uses a lucid and interesting language, which catches the attention from the first line that you read. It is a great gift for the school going children. Also the adults
like us can learn a thing or two. I learnt that, this supplement just completed its 10 years. A hearty congratulations! I rue the fact that I did not lay my hands on Gobar Times earlier, in my younger or childhood days.
Also, the names are quite interestingly chosen – Gobar Times and Pandit Gobar Ganesh. Kudos!!!
Amit
Via e-mail
Dear Pandit ji,
I am a geologist by professional training. I enjoyed the feature on Earth Rocks, Geology Gyan, Young Geologist and Time and Terrain. I also found the feature ‘Claying Tradition’ very interesting. I am indeed happy to know that sun dried clay is known as Terracruda.
Goutam Bhattacharya
Advisor-Environment Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur
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Dear Pandit ji,
We wish to know about brick making manufacturing process from fly ash from coal fired power plant and coal fired sponge iron plant. Please give us detail of various inputs (quantity wise) to be added with fly ash and manufacturing process chart.
Please also give us relevant references (books, articles, standards) on the subject matter.
S C Bansal,
Goa
Dear SC Bansal ji,
Using fly ash to make brick is a great idea. The Government of India has a Fly Ash Mission for the effective utilisation of the material. The Department of Science and Technology is the nodal agency and Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) is the implementing agency.
You may check out these websites for all the information you need on using fly ash to make bricks –
http://dst.gov.in/index.htm and http://flyashindia.tifac.org.in.
You may also contact:
Dr. Vimal Kumar
Adviser (Fly Ash), Fly Ash Utilisation Programme, TIFAC ‘A’ Wing, Vishwakarma Bhavan,
Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg,
New Delhi-110 016, India, Ph: +91-(0)11-26961318, E-mail: flyash@tifac.org.in
...endangered
Avec fur or non – furry
But certainly ought to worry
Cause they might be factorized
And wolfed down with a curry?
They dawdle around so free
Though living but cant foresee
That spur of the moment
Within which a metallic metal
Or an axe non-brittle
Might make them life free.
Whilst they hunt indispensable
prey
are themselves bruised to grey
For the malicious sapiens’
greed
In whose collusion they seldom
lay.
WE know they’re critical
But THEY are care free!
Exotic to the giant expeditions
Into their territory.
So from vulnerable they might
slither
Into the endangered category
And if these incessant killings
Continues for jewel and billings
Their endurance might be immense
worry.
The ‘might’ isn’t that uncertain
Cause the truth’s not behind
the veil
That time isn’t long away
When their fervent bruises
won’t heal…
SAMBHAV GUPTA
Class-XI
Delhi Public School
R. K. Puram
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Need of the hour -
‘Global Warning’
Some time generations down the line
No Spruce, none Deodar, nor Pine
Would yield to this stupendous heat
The heat burgeoning daily
To soon match that of a coalmine.
‘This’ might be some day’s scenario
But may be proponed to that of today,
As the green gases are encasing the globe
To deter degrees of heat to make way.
Its effrontery, it exhibits
‘cause humans on this insist-
That in their contest for survival
Carbon Dioxide greatly assists.
Daily- factories chimney it out,
Carouse cars boost it away
And “We” clip the coal apart,
For the precarious to squeeze out its way.
Since past a semi decade
Its level been promoted at a rally rate
And it is this precarious rank of it
Which we ought to relegate.
Though several efforts been clubbed
To ‘conclude’ Global Warming
BUT -for a ton percent success,
It summons for a global WARNING…
‘CAUSE this is just the inaugural observerance,
With a mercurial augment in the West
Such inconsistencies may be a score more
In the North, East, lest….
SAMBHAV GUPTA
Class-xi
Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram
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