Meat Consumption and Global Warming

I have been a vegetarian for most of my life. Me being a vegetarian stems from the fact that I hail from a Brahmin family where religion forbids meat consumption. When people asked me why I dint eat meat, my reply during high school and college was that I was a Brahmin. During my graduate [...]

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Mumbai’s First Earth Hour

On 15th Mumbai, India decided to pull the plug on power for an hour on a Saturday evening. Although the event wasn’t a major success, with pockets of the population not responding to the black out with dubious excuses, the awareness of Global Warming was instilled. Its good that India’s economic power house responded aware [...]

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We finally succumb to the Monkey Lords

Recently, I reported about about how Monkeys got the better of us (Guerrilla Warfare!!!).
Finally, we humans have succumbed.
“Lobburi (Thailand): Twenty chefs. Two tonnes of grilled sausage, fresh fruit, ice cream, milk and jelly. Two thousand guests. A lot of monkey business”
I am glad that we learnt our lesson so soon!

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Return of the Jedi

As promised earlier, I have another piece of news reporting the Monkey Terror.  First it was Delhi, India and now the diaspora in Indonesia has struck which is pure retaliation to the ecological imbalance I must say.
“Hundreds of monkeys have invaded houses and accosted villagers in Indonesia’s East Java province after their habitat was cleared [...]

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Blog Action Day: On the Environment and Semiconductor industry

Technology revolution has more or less evolved around Moore’s Law. Little does one know what it takes to process these fast ‘chips’. With the shrinking size of the transistor, process and devices dictate the use of more and more metals, chemicals and green house gases. The other worrying thing is that of the safety [...]

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