On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> My photos normally don't make reading material for this list, but this >> one is possibly an exception. > > > > What a portrait of despair, Cheeni. I was happy that Pulicat Lake had been > preserved as an ecosystem, but had never thought of the human cost. Thank > you....for making me think. I realize that the people in the area are very > poor...why do obvious things not strike me, sometimes?
Sad isn't it Deepa? If it's not been talked about widely it's because it's not in anyone's interest except the affected to talk about it. Heck it's not in my interest even; sullying your evenings with yet another sad story isn't memorable. I should probably write a longer piece on this and other economic dead zones that India creates as a matter of state policy. I can think of some in Uttaranchal, and yet in the neighboring Sikkim the Indian state bends over backwards to keep them happier than the rest of India.
