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Busting Bluffs

They are like bubbles in the air. Clearly visible, almost within reach, but the moment you try to touch them they disappear into nothingness. Because there is not a thread of truth to hold them together! Yet, why do these starkly false beliefs about environment continue to survive, grow, and spread? Sometimes because details get garbled, inadvertently.

Conflict Costs

Conflict costs

Ahmadullah is 60 years old. He lives on top of a hill in the battle-ravaged Kabul, which is used as a launching pad for the hundreds of rockets that are fired into the city every time civil war breaks out in Afghanistan. But, Ahmadullah has learnt to live with bombs and missiles.

USE-LESS

It is true. The adults are often confused about what is right and what is wrong — they know too much about too many things, you see. But the younger species of the human race have no such compulsions.

Poll Toll

Democrat candidate Barack Obama has won the US presidential elections. And the entire world is talking about his ‘historical’ victory. Not only because he is the first Afro-American President,
but also because he has won the elections with a huge margin, leaving his Republican counterpart John McCain far behind.

Mobility Costs

Godhuli and Shamik. Remember the two friends who went to the same school and who were working together on a class room project on global fuel prices (Issue dated 1-15 August, 2008) a few months ago? Well, here they are again.

India Floods

Despite massive amounts of money spent on dams, embankments and canals, the floods in India just keep on increasing in frequency and destrucive capacity? Why?

GEOLOGY GYAN

Have you noticed it? Whenever we want to describe something permanent, immovable, or resilient we invariably drag rocks into it. And this is not true of the English vocabulary alone. It is, in fact, an inherent part of every language that human beings speak, across the planet.

Energy Matters

Crude oil

Out of 98 oil producing nations, 64 are on terminal decline. What will happen when all wells dry up?

Food Economy

Pandit ji and Panditayen are sitting in the drawing room. Pandit ji has his nose buried in a newspaper, while Panditayen frowns as she fiddles with a calculator. She jots down some numbers on a piece of paper, then flings down the pen on the table and turns to Pandit ji.

Green Careers

Earth

You have known me for a decade now, right? Of course you do… it’s the 10th anniversary year of Gobar Times, remember? Time for some serious review of our relationship, huh? So readers, we have been chatting nineteen to the dozen each month, all these years.

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