December 2007

"Tata small car set to offer 25 kmpl mileage"!!

19 December 2007 - 11:00am — blrsri

KOLKATA: Ratan Tata and the Tata group have for months zealously kept a tight lid on the details of the Rs 1-lakh car that is slated to roll out of Tata Motors’ Singur factory in June 2008. But on Tuesday, the shroud came off in singular circumstances.

Prius not for India?!

19 December 2007 - 4:03pm — blrsri

Wiki says for India's electricity generation we use: coal: 69.1%; oil: 5.4%; nuclear: 2.5%; gas:9.5%; renewable: 13.5% (.3% biomass)(2004) So using electric cars -> use more electricity -> Burining more coal -> pollute more Toyota thinks hybrid cars use in China would not reduce carbon emmissions, what would be the policy in India? So, we dont need the Reva's?

How do you react?

18 December 2007 - 12:37pm — silkboard

Before I start on a long rant with my reactions, thoughts and ideas, tell me this. How should one react or behave on seeing things like these? And what should change to prevent these drivers from resorting to these shortcuts?

Cooking Gas From Kitchen Waste

18 December 2007 - 8:48pm — GVK

Left over food and vegetable waste discarded in a dump near our apartment complex raise a stink. Apartment residents hold their breath; and curse the municipal waste disposal staff, as they pass by the roadside dump. We could do something about it, if only we are so inclined, thanks to the work

done by Pune-based Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) in developing a household biogas plant that feeds on our kitchen waste.

Robbing The Hungry - the racket called PDS

16 December 2007 - 7:48am — murali772

With even the likes of Medha Patkar critical of the system, perhaps the only ones who would be opposed to it's being dismantled would now be just the racketeers and a few pseudo-socialists. Isn't it a crying shame that the country continues to allow as massive a loot as an annual Rs 10,000 crores by this lot?

text of the letter sent to the New Indian Express: