Incredible India 46 – India Releases More Gas oops Farts on Bhopal Gas Victims

Life is cheap in India. Real cheap. Particularly, the lives of the poor and helpless. Some 15,000-20,000 people died and another 200,000-600,000 were injured in the worst industrial disaster in India triggered by the carelessness of Union Carbide (now part of Dow Chemicals) when deadly methyl isocyanate gas escaped from the company’s plant and wafted […]

Incredible India 43: Flowers are So Passé in India

(For SI blog reader VJcool) Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago Where have all the flowers gone? Young girls picked them every one When will they ever learn? – American folksinger and song-writer Pete Seeger: “Where have all the flowers gone?” In Incredible […]