The other day I saw this picture in the newspaper showing a tiger running across the road in the middle of the forest with vehicles going at high speeds around it. Well, having being in the field of environment for the past two years, I’ve read a lot about issues with infrastructure development in forests [...]
Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Why did the tiger cross the road?
Posted in Development, Environmental Concept, Introspection, tagged Biodiversity, Development, Extinction, Habitat Fragmentation, Reserves, Roads, Tigers, Viable population on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A thought on communication
Posted in Development, Health, Ideology, Introspection, Verbal diarrhoea, tagged Approach, Communication, Development, Health, Innovation on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(I had written this essay for an online competition conducted by the IPHU on the theme of “Innovating for the health of all” )
Countries of the world have been busy investing money in making bullets to silence communication. What we need now is for countries to invest time on making valuable communication.
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When the meaning of [...]
Play your part
Posted in Development, Introspection, tagged Choices, Environment, Philosophy, Sustainable Development on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The first step in being a part of the solution is to not be a part of the problem”.
It becomes very difficult for us to suddenly accept that many of our activities of daily living are problem creators, “I’ve been doing this all my life… my parents have lived their life the same way and [...]
Precautionary Principle
Posted in Development, Environmental Concept, tagged Environment, Legislature, Philosophy, Precautionary Principle on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This important piece of legislature is worth knowing about. It is a safety valve mechanism which allows us to challenge any developmental initiative on the lines of doubt of negative impacts the initiative may have.
Even though science is growing at an astronomical pace, there are many things that we don’t know and can’t prove. Any [...]
Arrested development
Posted in Development, Ideology, Introspection, Verbal diarrhoea, tagged Development, Education, Environment, Sustainable Development on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Post no. 20
Moving on further in understanding dichotomy, we now arrive again at the word ‘development’. I have already mentioned in my previous posts that this is one of the most abused words in the english language; and now it has so many meanings that it can possibly be used for anything.
The dominant paradigm in [...]
Need, Want and Population
Posted in Development, Environmental Concept, Ideology, Introspection, tagged Environment, Philosophy, Population on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In my most favourite poem, Alfred Lord Tennyson says “…for men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever”. Here ‘I’ refers to a brook. The beauty, the importance, the benevolance and the power of the brook has been beautifully captured in this timeless piece.
Men continue to come and go. Over the years, [...]
Where does this road lead to?
Posted in Development, Environmental Concept, Ideology, Introspection, tagged Development, Environment, Philosophy on June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Post no. 7
The word development, like many other words, shows a real want of meaning. The word is tossed around more and more as time goes by. The original meaning has been lost in oblivion.
Man is a creature of curiosity and inquisitiveness. He needs to know what is under every basket. That’s how the story of Pandora’s [...]
A Disturbing Advertisement
Posted in Development, Introspection, tagged Environment, Globalization, Marketing on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This post was not in the pipeline….I just came across a very disturbing advertisement today morning on the radio. We do live in the age of marketing, and we do take a lot of shit from the corporates through ads and through our product choices, but this ad really struck me on the face. For [...]
What….me…..responsible ?? A question of justice
Posted in Development, Environmental Concept, Ideology, Introspection, tagged Environment, Justice, Philosophy on June 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Post no. 5
(Before starting on the subject, I would like to address certain suggestions i’ve recieved about the blog.Though this blog was started just to discuss philosophy, some say that pure philosophy is not guiding enough for action, so more action-based posts would help too… also that more radical suggestions may be needed due to [...]
Decisions, Society and The Matrix
Posted in Development, Education, Introspection, tagged Environment, Philosophy, The Matrix on June 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Post No. 4
The title doesnot sound like an environmental theme, does it?
I saw the movie ‘The Matrix’ for the 19th time today morning. I’ve never voluntarily seen any other movie more than 3 times. Every time i saw it, I enjoyed it more than the previous time because I always saw a new hidden concept,message [...]
