'Climate Change' caught in Prespectives!

One must understand climate change in the right prespectives...the comments recieved during the recent interaction with academicians at a gathering made me sit for a while. Yaah! like 'Development' and 'Hapiness' as a term has widely defined by various thinkers and scholars. But those opinion makers on the 'Climate Change' are taking the debates to their own subject of understanding, the environmentalist - terms it change induced primarily by the human actions and this climate change is determental to the existence of the mother earth. Environmental Economists (though I consider economists to be special breed who would draw learning (blood!!) from all the sciences and dominate the debate) -who often refer climate to be adapted and mitigated by investment, organisational changes, and so on impacting the Income and production cycle of the humans. They are cloned again by the political scientists who ventures into series of negotians with the elite business houses, lobby groups and trade blocks in order to maximise the regional or national benefits. They talk of North South divide..groups on either side of line in climate change debates. The scientists working on the climate change try to develop wonderful products to safe guard from impacts -suggests climate change a boon to research community with loads of funds available for their labs and institutions.

What about peoples understanding of climate change? Yes media bombards them with news and views on the climate change with serious disaster like floods, Tsunami, and even earthquake attributed to climate change. People keep on delibrating every summer, monsoon and winter about how excessive or scanty the phenomenon has become since they attained their adulthood. 'Climate Change' like a elephant body parts are different to these groups of knowledge makers and providers. With the changing body politic of the global empires and super powers, nations tend to pass on the information selective to their own people. Yet these countries a platform for serious debates ...on every thing on climate change. This is not clear to many why executives on the administration dwelve on the series of discussion on the issues brought up a handful of researchers (observers) who tend to make opinions from North pole to South Pole, from 1 million years ago to 100 years ahead and from your backyard to the tip of iceberg in Antartica.

Would this become a favourate time pass by the stakeholders? Unless there is serious inward looking executive, economists, environmentalists, political scientists or negotiators, the world would enter to the regime of 'deterministic' regime. Since last two decades (rather since 1987, Sustainablility - Earth Summit) the world has moved closer to climate observation and more fearful it has become. Similarly, as NASA scientists closely monitor the Sun and Mars we get more mesmerised by the serious fallout of phobia of 'If' this happens then what!

In the line of fire : Its Kashmirs Civilians again

During last few months the clash between the security forces and the civilians have picked up as news emerging from the regional and national media presents the picture. The repeated victims of violence and terror are not only the Indians who are outside the Kashmir but those people who have been supressed by the security forces.

Again for the political gain the people are being taught to violently oppose the Indian government regime..Why when a democratic government is in place headed by the dynestic politician Mr. Omar Abdullah such a mahem is happening? Why Central government needs to be targeted for all the ills not the state machinery? These incidents are happening when things had started to improve in Kashmir, including incrase in trade, urban projects, indrastructure, tourism and agriculture, the state is back on the violent incidents lists. The country would be hoping that everything is going well in the state. As opposed, what has emerged from recent actions on the streets a thorough plan to oppose Indian government using mass media.

For once and all, will our government settle this issue amicablly with people? Let the truth come out from by conducting the referendum on the 'Kashmir Issue'. The young generation of future India does not want this issue to linger on for next 50 years. Lets not look Kashmir Issue from Muslim v/s Hindu glasses. This is a political and rights issue of the people. Only if we know who is representing them....Mr. Omar Abdullah , the legitimate CM or others...

ANVESHAN 2010: West Zone Meet

Our project on the climate change and regional development regarding development of Spatial Prediction Model for Gujarat was appreciated at the West Zone Scientific Research Project Meet, Anveshan 2010 (under Association of Indian Universities, AIU) held at Faculty of Science, MSU. This event saw 69 research project entries from various universities in West zone including University of Pune, Mumbai Univ, SNDT, MSU, Goa etc. The entries of the project were in three categories (a) Basic Sciences (b) Technology and Engineering and (c) Allied Science. We entered in the Basic Sciences category with topic related to climate change and Impacts.

We could able to secure 3rd position in the Basic Science categories among the participants. We would be going for the National Research Convention planned in August 2010 at Punjab University, Chandigarh. This is national event where entries from all five zones would be participating for the competition. The selected few would have chance to collaborate with foreign universities/ institutions and may also win some cash award. Hope we do best for the project.

Wealth and Weathiest Indians: Exposed

In the latest revealition that above 13.0 million Indians are getting poorer and country also boast of High Networth Individuals having average wealth of 16 crores counting upto 1.3lakh persons in country.
According to the 2009 Asia-Pacific Wealth Report, brought out by financial services firms Capgemini and Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, at the peak of the recession in 2008, India had 84,000 HNWIs with a combined net worth of $310 billion. It would take an average urban Indian 2,238 years, based on the monthly per capita expenditure estimates in the 2007-8 National Sample Survey, to achieve a net worth equal to that of the average HNWI. And that's assuming that this average urban Indian just accumulates all his income without consuming anything. A similar calculation shows that an average rural Indian would have to wait a fair bit longer — 3,814 years!

According to the firms' 2010 World Wealth Report, India now has 126,700 HNWIs, an increase of more than 50% over the 2008 number. While the figure for combined net worth is not available, it seems safe to assume that as a class not only have India's super-rich recouped their 2008 losses, they have even made gains over their pre-crisis (2007) positions. In 2007, 123,000 HNWIs were worth a combined $437 million.

An estimated 33.6 million more people in India became poor or remained in poverty over 2008 and 2009 than would have been poor had the pre-crisis (2004-7) growth rates been maintained over these two years.

(Based on Times of India, 24th June)