Category: Paani

Watch this video , and guess what the story of Paani is ? The last statement in the video is a hint. It's not the money - it's the Power. That's where we are heading - a world where Water is power - and Power corrupts. Of course. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikb4WG8UJRw&feature=player_embedded

I want to thank A R Rahman for taking me to Ajmer to visit The Dargah Sherriff of Khwaja Muinuddin Chisti. It was my first visit and going with AR Rahman made the visit even more amazing. It is very difficult and perhaps not right to write or express the feelings unless one has had [...]

Dear Shekhar When I joke ( I know that I am not joking) with my 75 years old widowed mother in Rishikesh, who revers and loves Ganga more than anything, that 'better you die soon since Ganga is going to disappear', her ever smiling face becomes pale with gloom when she replies back, " I [...]

Water and the nature and course of rivers have for centuries defined the rise and fall of civilizations. All over the world and all throughout history. Be it the Nile or the rivers that are nurtured and fed by the Glaciers of the Himalayas. Which have been receding at an alarming rate. Himalayan Glaciers directly [...]

Do you want to send the political leaders at the UN that are dithering about making the most fundamental changes that are required to save our planet ? If you do, then write back on this blog asap and I will make sure that all the messages are sent to the UN before or during [...]

24th August 2010 The following item appeared on Google news and was immedietly suppressed : " A water tanker carrying water to a building in the posh Malabar Hill in the centre of Mumbai was gheraoed (surrounded) by a mob of about 200 slum dwellers that demanded that the tanker fill their buckets before it [...]

So the papers are full of news that the ground water table in northern India is being seriously depleted, and so it threatens destroy our agricultural output. Of course while the media may have just caught up with this story, common people have known this for 20 years now. Ever since the agricultural revolution was [...]

The monsoon is late, the wells are running dry and in the teeming city of Bhopal, water supply is now a deadly issue. Gethin Chamberlain reports Gethin Chamberlain THE OBSERVER Sunday, 12 July 2009 A young man walks across Bhopal's Upper Lake, which has shrunk to an 8th of its original area. It was a [...]

This is from an old friend who left a high flying career in advertising to be closer to reality. There are many different opinions on my being in the Talent show, but read on to what she sys later. It's important and from the heart : "Watch you every week on India's Got Talent and [...]

Scene from Paani : " As the little girl running towards camera gets shot from behind, she screams her last words " Water is our right - it is not for sale" As she falls, through the dust you barely make out the uniform of the man that shot her. He wears a blue helmet [...]