• 01 August, 2012

When battered people took on the pesticide industry

Today, I want to tell you a true story of extraordinary courage. The past week, I was in Kasaragod, a district in Kerala, splendid in beauty and with abundant natural resources, but destroyed by the toxic chemical, endosulfan. The pesticide was aerially sprayed over cashew plantations, for some 20 years, in complete disregard of the fact that there is no demarcation between plantations and human habitation in this area. It is also a high rainfall region and so, the sprayed pesticide leached into the ground and flowed downstream.

• 27 June, 2011

Energy conservation is a moving target

A decade has passed since the Energy Conservation Act was enacted in 2001.

• 20 April, 2011

Report On Health Effects Of Endosulfan And Progress Of Rehabilitation Activities In Kerala" by Govt. of Kerala

Endosulfan, a highly toxic organochlorine pesticide was sprayed in the cashew plantations in Kasaragod District since 1978, till 2001 regularly three times every year. The aerial spraying of Endosulfan was undertaken to contain the menace of the tea mosquito bug.

• 03 February, 2011

Endosulfan: Another Kasaragod

By:  Savvy Soumya Misra Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa in December announced that his government would consider banning endosulfan. The highly toxic pesticide is banned in over 70 countries.