India’s growth story cannot be complete without a truthful representation of its rural economy. The latest Census report, released in 2011 stated that around 73% of Indian households were rural and this can be seen as an indicator of its rural extant and the report establishes that India is still ...
Is the chicken you get in commercial large scale food vendors, in products like sandwiches, chicken? Perhaps not.Subway is a group that targets health conscious folk, who avoid other fast food. Is it healthy? A recent inves-tigation by CBC Marketplace shows that the chicken used in Subway chicken sa...
The Chamber of Indian Trade & Industry submits a memorandum to control air pollutionIn November 2017, air pollution in Delhi spiked beyond acceptable levels. Levels of PM 2.5 and PM 10 particulate matter hit 999 micrograms per cubic metre, while the safe limits for those pollutants are 60 and 10...
Bahadi Tudu, a tribal from Madhuban village in the Dumka district of Jharkhand, is a member of a self-help group operating under the ‘Mission 2020: Lakhpati Kisan – Smart Villages’ programme. Coordinated by the Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives of Jamshedpur, the nodal agency o...
A few months ago, a friend of mine said that his son wanted to do hotel management but he was not going to allow him since he didn’t want his son working with meat and eggs in any form. It was then that I remembered Mr. Luniya and his crusade.It just takes the determination of one person to change...
Maneka Sanjay GandhiMinister, Women & Child Welfare, GoI Life is so complex. We think of all beings as animals or plants and this means a lot when you are vegetarian and determined not to hurt. What characterises a being as one or another. An animal must feed on other living...
I feel sorry for the magnificent animal that is the bull. I was at a banking mela organised by the local administration in Alwar. A bull wandered in and walked about harmlessly. Almost every stall keeper hit him. Bystanders hit him. Security guards attacked him. His only reaction was to try and dodg...
The agriculture sector is expected to do well this year. But despite a normal monsoon, the total area sown in the country has decreased by 0.6% compared to last year. The gross value added (GVA) in agriculture has been plummeted to 0.3% in the first quarter of the present FY18 (April-June) in spite ...
In the last two weeks, my team at People for Animals has been examining all the religious sites on the Net to see what kind of nonsense is being put on in the name of Hinduism. Ever since I learnt about the Hathajodi “magic Talisman”, which is just the penis of the giant monitor lizard, being so...
Scindia Girl’s School in Gwalior abutted a thick forest area. I studied there for two years. The only term in my entire school life that I got a low grade was when I discovered a tiny mandir in the forest and someone told me that, instead of doing my homework, if I prayed and went round the mandir...