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...Greener India Your cover package on Asia's environment [Oct. 9] provided shocking facts on the pollution and overpopulation of the Indian city of Kanpur and indicated that four of Asia's 10 most polluted cities are in India. The report should be an eye opener for Indians. The dramatic resurgence of the Japanese port of Kitakyushu is inspiring and is surely an environmental role model. Indian cities should implement the Kitakyushu model, as Dalian in China has done, with a commitment to a cleaner future. Let us give a face-lift to the River Ganges like the one Dokai...
...This is déjà vu, I said to myself when I saw the pictures of a flood of trash floating on a Jakarta river and bike commuters wearing masks to protect themselves from toxic diesel fumes in Kanpur, India. Those are the same scenes we saw in Kitakyushu and other cities in the 1960s and '70s, when Japan was notorious as the archipelago of kogai, or environmental disruption. I was one of the victims of the choking smog at that time. Asians are starting to put more pressure on their governments to tackle staggering environmental problems, but time...
...World's Business Tool Mandarin's emergence as the second global language after English proves that Asia is on the road to becoming a superpower [June 26]. With the Chinese economy booming, it is no surprise that people all over the world are choosing to study Mandarin. Ritu Awasthi Kanpur, India...
...Indeed, innovative gadgets will govern our lives. But there is always a price associated with these new devices. Air pollution will reach its zenith. There will be climatic disturbances leading to famine. Bioterrorism will be on the rise. Does the future truly look bright for coming generations? Ritu Awasthi Kanpur, India...
...enterprise sounds laudable enough, but it has become bitterly divisive. Young Hindu fundamentalists have gone on violent frenzies in the past year, assaulting missionaries and heckling couples in Kanpur on Valentine's Day--a Western invention, they asserted, that should not be observed in India. Many of the toughs were enlisted by youth and student groups affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu revivalist organization that is the parent to India's ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party...