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A Piscean Saga

Fishtale

Lets start with the basics. Simply put, pisciculture is fish farming. It involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food. We do it, as you know in our pukur (pond). The task is not as straightforward as it sounds though. Because an extremely limited number of fish species can actually be nurtured in captivity from the egg to the adult stage.

Freaky Floods

It has been pouring this year. With extraordinary intensity and in unusual places. Take the case of Delhi. The city gets not more than 617-620 mm of rainfall in a normal year. But this season it has already received over 1013.7 mm and it is still raining.

Trash Life

It’s a part of the CCC, folks. I am referring to Delhi’s Colossal Commonwealth Clean-Up drive, that has been launched by the state government to give India’s capital a scrubbed look before the international hot shots begin to arrive.

Food Route

Street food

We shall begin with a not-so-savoury piece of news. A people’s movement is brewing in Bihar. So what’s new, did you ask? Well, this time the ‘people’ concerned are not fighting for their right over farmlands or forests. They are demanding their own space in the streets of Bihar’s cities, where they can carry on with their business.

Green Wash

Hereʼs the latest from the Climate Change front. Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singhʼs Council on Climate Change has cleared the Urban Habitat Mission, which will make it compulsory for all office buildings in Indian cities to adopt energy-saving codes within the next three years.

Vulcan’s Fumes

Barring the locals of Iceland, the name is a giant tongue twister for most others. Yet millions across the globe spoke of little else but Eyjafjallajökull during the past month. The Icelandic volcano, which was rumbling with unusual intensity since December, 2009, and triggered as many as 3000 ‘mild’ quakes in early March, finally erupted on 20 March, 2010.

Where water?

Dry taps and pipelines. Handpumps that don’t pull up water any more. Tankers that just can’t carry enough for everyone. It’s the same story every summer in India’s cities, towns and villages. The  shortage only gets worse. The bad news is that the crisis is here to stay.

Lunar Love

It was August 15, 2003. The Independence day speech of the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had just triggered a round of heated exchanges among the country’s top notch scientists. Reason? Vajpayee had given his nod to the US $100-million state-funded space project Chandrayaan I.

Eat up!

First things first. A quick but fervent ‘thank you’ goes out to whoever is responsible for the plate of food that I dig into every meal time. I might take it for granted but I know that I am one of the lucky ones. Billions around the world are not so lucky. In fact, almost one third of the population in my own country goes to bed without dinner, on most nights.

Money Plant

The steady disappearance of the world’s biodiversity had been recorded earlier, but the problem reached scary heights in the late 1980s. The loss during this decade was described by experts as “the most catastrophic” in the last 65 million years!

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