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  1. SOS to Jairam Ramesh

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    / March 2, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By E A S SarmaThe environment and forests ministry’s letter on March 1, 2011 raises more doubts in my mind than I had earlier. Jairam Ramesh’s statement that the Kakarapalli project is located within a wetland system is on record in yesterday’s proceedings of Parliament. It was factually a correct...

  2. Srikakulam gets a taste of state power. Again

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    / February 28, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By E A S Sarma Two innocent lives have today been lost in police firing on villagers in Kakarapalli in Srikakulam district. The villagers were protesting against the setting up of a thermal power plant of East Coast Energy in the area.   We addressed several letters to the Andhra...

  3. Powerless people of Srikakulam

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    / February 26, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By E A S Sarma   Sompeta was repeated in Kakarapalli yesterday. Just like in July last year, when hundreds of locals were fired upon by the police, when they were protesting against the Nagarjuna’s thermal plant in Sompeta, yesterday, the anti-power plant agitation took a violent turn in Santabommali...

  4. Is this Vizag’s destiny?

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    / February 18, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By E A S Sarma The Visakhapatnam chapter of INTACH collected a water sample from the channel draining the waste water into the sea from Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) near Appikonda village. We then got the sample analysed at the laboratory of the AP Pollution Control Board in Vizag and...

  5. Let tourism in Vizag not destroy Vizag

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    / January 15, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By E A S SarmaWe have information that the Visakhapatnam district authorities met on January 13 to discuss a plan of action to push through several tourism projects in the district. If it is true, we are concerned. We feel that tourism cannot be separated from the law of the...

  6. The sparrow has taken flight

    Posted by Prof Dr S Bakhtiar Choudhary
    / November 20, 2010 / 1 Comment
    My house in Defence Colony in Secunderabad in the late seventies, when I was about 17 years old, always used to be a mess, thanks to the friendly neighbourhood sparrows. Of course, I did not feel particularly friendly towards them all the time. There would be lots of grass, nest...

  7. This money plant has `intel inside’ !!

    Posted by Prof Dr S Bakhtiar Choudhary
    / November 15, 2010 / 1 Comment
    As you are aware, electronic waste is emerging as a huge challenge for this and the next generation. Research has yet to provide suitable solutions. Changing configurations and upgradation of CPUs and printers are creating more and more material hazardous to the environment. Time has come that each one of...

  8. Get Lord Ayyappa back to Sabarimala

    Posted by Ullash Kumar R K
    / November 14, 2010 / Leave a comment
    By Ullash Kumar November 17 marks the beginning of the Vrikshikam month in the Malayalam calender that ushers in the Ayyappa season. But I wonder if Lord Ayyappa resides anymore in Sabarimala. Shocking as this may sound, I say this with all respect and responsibility. I say this because today...

  9. Landslides and monsoon in Ooty

    Posted by Ullash Kumar R K
    / November 6, 2010 / Leave a comment
    By Ullash Kumar R K I wish these rocks Those cliffs that hold The beautiful blue mountains And my home in front of her four pillars And my life in place Don’t walk away. I need them here As I wait for you Waiting is the pleasure of my life...

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