Harnessed In Slums
Over 500 jhuggis (huts) destroyed in Vasant Kunj. Filed under: India Tagged: India, Vasant Kunj
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Flights of fancy: 11 days to the Ides of March and the knives are already out for premier
Alison Redford’s party awaits the Alberta Premier’s arrival before boarding their Government of Alberta aircraft. Actual Alberta big shots may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Pompeia, the wife of…
Harsh weather strikes accross the Globe
Severe weather is making news from record snowfall in Japan to devastating floods in the U.K. Following video says it all:
Cancelled: Alison Redford’s expensive Afghanistan photo-op
TweetAlbertans discovered this week that Premier Alison Redford cancelled a secretly planned trip to war-torn Afghanistan after suicide bomber blew herself up in a Kabul restaurant , killing twenty-one people,…
A GM & Pesticide Free Rice Growing Revolution
Rice farmers have been growing their crop in the same way for hundreds of years and most people have assumed the most efficient way to grow rice has been figured…
Tanishq ad for second wedding strikes a chord
Across the pond and over the hills to India, a new ad by jeweller Tanishq is the talk of the town for pushing boundaries. Created by one of India’s largest…
Monsanto is Winning this year’s “Nobel Prize of Agriculture”
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger This message was sent to me along with a petition. (Thanks Tom) Please take a few minutes to read and then forward this along to your friends…
India Bans Shark Finning
Chinese demand for the fins of sharks (I have no idea what they are good for) has gone up over the past couple years. India is one of the largest…
What Does India Have In Common With Regina? Asbestos
One thing we share is an abundance of unsafe Quebec chrysotile AKA asbestos. Most of the world stopped using the miracle mineral once they realized what a global disaster its…
Climate change is ruining my tea
This is really too much. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, all aggravated by climate change, and now the cruelest blow of all—it’s ruining our tea. India produces one-third of the world’s tea…
Minimum Wage: Not Just for Kids Anymore!
The 1% and their media apologists and think tank lackeys would have us all believe that minimum wage is for kids. It’s for unskilled labour in entry level jobs.And it’s…
Will India defeat malnutrition?
India has a lot of a lot of things, including hungry people. It has the world’s second largest population and the world’s second highest percentage of malnourished children. It also…
Sometimes the Internet Delivers Encouraging Content
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger There is a seemingly non stop supply of non corporate controlled news, opinion and information available on the internet. I have listed many of them under…
A Few Thousand Dead Indians
What makes me mad? People like Saskatchewan’s infamous shock-talk-jock John Gormley, who thinks the world needs fewer “activists”. Here’s the resulting story from a recently released PLUSD cable from the…
India’s Supreme Court Paves the Way for Cheaper Pharmaceuticals
India continues to pave the way for providing cheaper generic drugs for its citizens compared to other nations which have a heavy patent system. Previously India has produced drugs for…
Arms Race Update – India Warns Kashmiris to Prepare for Nuclear War
Indian officials are warning residents in their part of Kashmir to dig bomb shelters and gather a two week supply of food and water in preparation for a possible nuclear…
From housing to plumbing
(originally written Mar 4, 2012. Part of Great Upload of 2013.) Readers (regular and irregular both) may know that about six years ago, I was quoted in MacLean’s saying Canadian…
India: Tragic Cases of Gang Rape
Two gruesome cases of gang rape in India have received international media attention. Symptomatic of longer standing problems, they have shed a light on the poor state of women’s rights…
Arms Race Update – Indian Navy to South China Sea
India has served notice that its navy is ready to sail into the South China Sea to protect the country’s oil interests there. Indian Navy Chief Admiral D.K Joshi said…