On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com> wrote: > My photos normally don't make reading material for this list, but this > one is possibly an exception. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheeni/6715593627/in/photostream/ > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheeni/6715606213/in/photostream/ > > Pulicat Lake, India, a glorious mammoth brackish water bio-preserve is > a deliberate economic dead zone thanks to the high profile rocket > center at Sriharikota only ~15 kilometers away. It's cheaper to keep > away prying eyes through poverty; an economic firebreak that claims a > few villages for the greater good of the nation. > > India for all its democratic noises is a fascist colonial power when > it uses the institutions of state power to expand its aura at the high > table while consigning the lives of the 3 villages in the lake shore > to stunted growth. I'd like environmentalists and scientists alike to > consider that sometimes their pet causes can come at a great cost. If > this place were not an economic dead zone this man and the people of > the neighboring villages would have a way of reclaiming their lives. >
I am not sure if this situation is only because of the rocket launch center. for e.g. -- you go to parts of chennai city and you can find a large number of people like this -- most accessible one is the part of foreshore estate along the sea-front (an extension of the marina ) which was wiped out by the tsunami and now resembles a ghost town. fact is, even before it was hit by the tsunami it used to be like that.
