Every year, as you well know, is the International Year for Something or the Other. If you had forgotten, 2010 was the International Year of Bio-diversity, which, in common parlance, means the sum total of living creatures in an eco-system. This annual theme has a ring of irony for anyone in India—it’s been the year of fighting for biodiversity, whether it’s been the battles around the mangroves around the Navi Mumbai airport or the Vedanta mines and smelting, or even, the outrage over Bt Brinjal. Read More
