There is an age-old saying in the Odiya language: Jala bihune srusti nasha, jala bahule srusti nasha, which means too much and too little water destroys creation. This holds true for the coastal district of Kendrapara, Odisha.
Expectations from this chapter of the climate conference may not be substantive.
India joined the trillion-dollar GDP club just before this year's usual Finance Minister’s budget speech. The fifth consecutive budget presentation by the incumbent finance minister (FM) P Chidambaram is itself a rare achievement that was only rivalled by his present prime minister. When Dr Manmohan Singh was finance minister, the Congress party government didn’t worry about the Earth Summit or climate change but just opened the Indian market for the West (waste!) world to plunge into it.