Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - April 29, 2016
TWO months ago the Ministry of Health raided the kingpin of the illegal oxytocin trade in India. He is a lowly employee of the Municipal Corporation of Kolkata with 5 houses, and many godowns stuffed with oxytocin, and another illegal drug codeine. Both items have been flown in for him from China regularly by Fed […]
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - April 22, 2016
MOST PEOPLE read the papers, forget most and get on with the day. Few people see the patterns; the big picture of what is happening in the world. One of the things that has been happening with greater and greater frequency is large and mysterious animal deaths. Something that punsters call flockalypse (as in apocalypse […]
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - April 8, 2016
Do you remember a time when the cow came to your house to give your milk? When cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Hyderabad were but towns, they used to house animals inside the residential areas. Several dairies with five to 50 animals were located after every few blocks and either you sent someone […]
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - March 18, 2016
My mother died of breast cancer. I have had many violent deaths in my family and each one has been gut wrenching. Nothing is as bad as watching a beloved parent die by degrees. My mother loved food. She loved milk, butter, paneer, fatty foods, maida, parathas, samosa, puddings. She never exercised, using the excuse […]
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - March 11, 2016
Sooner or later the world is going to have to stop using chemical pesticides. The statistics in India WHO says cancer shows an increase of 60% in just 15 years (1998-2013) and this could only be due to the chemical pollution caused by these unnecessary and vicious compounds that simply create money for their sellers […]
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - March 4, 2016
Do you remember a time when the cow came to your house to give your milk? When cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Hyderabad were but towns, they used to house animals inside the residential areas. Several dairies with 5 to 50 animals were located after every few blocks and either you sent someone […]
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - February 20, 2016
These are particles of plastics that are purposefully manufactured to be of a microscopic size. They are usually used in facial cleansers and cosmetics, or in air blasting. Plastic microbeads are used in over 100 different personal care products in the market today. They range in size from 2 millimetres to as small as a […]
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - January 29, 2016
I have a vegetable garden.The monkeys take my brinjals, the parakeets take the chillies, the moles take the cauliflower, leaf curl gets my tomatoes, and squirrels come for some seeds. I get the mint, dhaniya and the different saags. But over the last one year I have been dealing with different ways in which to […]
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - January 9, 2016
This amazing world of ours whoever created it has put in just about every variation that the cosmic mind can think of. What are the odd features of animal urination and defecation? Dogs go round and round before they urinate and defecate to align themselves with the earths magnetic field facing either north or […]
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - January 1, 2016
I have never seen a wild boar. I see Nilgais sometimes, magnificent tall blue-grey creatures, in small herds on the edges of small copses. Both these animals are used as bogeys. They are supposed to be destroying all the crops. They are the main reasons for our lack of food etc. Some politicians go up […]