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Feast brings respite from odd routines

  On an important occasion, I had the great opportunity to attend a feast arranged at a posh hotel in our famous city of Kanpur's famous Jajmau area. Various delicious items were arranged on the stylish table. The guests were really free to choose what they liked to consume. There was a considerable rush but not in any way uncontrollable when I entered the grand air conditioning space. Soon, the humble host emerged, and we liked to embrace each other as human decency permits us to do. I did not lose much time sharing a light joke. I briefed him that I saw you standing from just outside, but you were out of sight the moment I entered the hall.  He, in his usual manner, did not pause to say how a man so fat could not be viewed from quite a short distance. Thus we laughed to the full heartily. Among various dishes, there was also the regular Biryani. How would it be neglected owing to its wide acceptability? When it was available to the guests, they certainly had to savour it exp...

Polluted air


What ails humanity badly is nothing but air pollution. There is no sharp argument over this problem. We do not have clean air to breathe. Instead, we move on to polluted air. There is no relief from this Bane.

According to one vital study, about seven million people die each year from illnesses attributable to air pollution. 

This remains a stark fact in no uncertain terms.

Nowadays a lot of discussion goes on this phenomenon but it shrinks in shorter precincts. 

A lack of positive steps is not doing away with this menace.

The environmentalists are never successful in giving this worse situation as much importance as it needs to be on the living planet. 

Various things halt the urgent need to bring the dress of air pollution in the same way as Aids, tuberculosis malaria etc., 

Growing calls from the health sector rise for the situation to change globally. 

Meantime, Christa Hasenkopf, the director of clean air programmes at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago said that air pollution has a far greater health impact at this point in time. 

There are indeed health issues related to rising air pollution. If there are billion-dollar global funds, why does the air pollution issue lack serious attention?


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