Earth Day

Thanks to the autorickshaw strike, I took my vehicle to the office. Later I realized that today is earth day (thanks to google), and I thought I should have used public transport instead. It’s a separate story that all the public transport buses are overcrowded today, again because of auto-rickshaw strike.

I also started thinking am I doing something from my side to reduce my carbon footprint. ‘Carbon footprint’ a nice term coined by some nice people who care for the planet. But how many of us are actually aware of this. Rather how many of us actually bother about the same. I believe the time has come for all of us to move upwards, those who are aware should start bothering and those who are not aware should develop awareness.

I am not a environmentalist, but I can certainly recollect few of the past events that was lucky enough to have given coverage by media.

· There were non seasonal rain in some part of Delhi, TN (or Andra).
· India is facing huge shortage of food grains, should be worldwide problem
· There was a recent fight between two Indian states regarding setting of one water project
· Drought in Australia….. I mean Rice production (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/business/worldbusiness/17warm.html)
· And everyone know about melting of glaciers
· And many others that I am not probably aware of….

If you pull out some of your precious time and think about all these events together they indicate one and one thing – a global imbalance.

Once I was watching discovery and I remember the episode focused on new buildings that are ecofriendly – they require less lights inside and are well lit by sunlight during the day, they recirculate the water used etc.

You already must be aware Honda is testing hydrogen powered car somewhere, tata has launched green batteries, two days back there was news that India’s largest private sector company was probably in talks with world largest fuel cell manufacturer to set up a plant in India….. so that means people are doing some stuff around cutting down emissions, partly because it gives huge publicity, partly it readies you for what can become a necessity in future and partly (I hope) morally as they have the right resources with them (capital, manpower, technology etc.)

At the same time I also believe time has come that we ourselves change our daily activities to an extent that we are able to reduce our own carbon footprint. How do we do that, I leave it to individuals.

Cricket League

ICL has already completed few matches, IPL matches are schedule to start very shortly and I was once thinking that it can very easy for any influential person to do Match-Fixing in these kind of scenario.

Given the different stakeholder in international matches, different authorities, different cultures, different languages and different sentiments, even then if people are able to do match-fixing for international matches……… in national league its anyone’s game.

Anyway, I am not convinced that cricket league in India is focused on nurturing new talent…. I think it is a factory to generate cash.
Government should levy a tax on BCCI, and the amount should be used for development of other cash-deprived sports in India.