I have been an intrepid and inveterate traveller. Have travelled in some 70 countries and worked in 40 of them. Am still travelling in my retirement. My travels in the Third World, and especially Africa, have moved me deeply. The penury, dire poverty and destitution I saw in Third World left an indelible mark on me. I saw poverty not only in the fast developing countries like China and India but also in the USA. Hurricane Katrina exposed the widespread poverty in the US. Only the other day a UN report revealed the extent of homelessness in US. In LA alone some 100000 people are homeless and sleep in parks and on footpaths.
I am interested in environment but not obsessed with it. To me development in the poorest countries of the Third World - some 24, according to the UN Human Development Report (2009) - is of paramount importance and utmost priority. Many eminent environmentalists now agree that by sticking to sustainable development in poor countries, we are damning them to perennial poverty.
I shall be bloging mainly on environment, current affairs and religion. I shall also be writing on India occasionally.
