Quick notes: Little Sun | Curbing cars...

• "Made In India" written all over "Little Sun": This is the most expensive mega-science effort India is participating in and globally ITER is the most expensive science project on Earth ever to be undertaken in the 21st century. India, by contributing to about 10% of the cost, gets access to 100% of technology.



• Ditch cars:

  In 2003, the share of cars was 14.8%. By 2031 that is expected to touch 40%. More cars will occupy more space. Our standard response to the traffic problem is making new roads and also widening the existing roads. But every time we make a new road or widen an existing one precious land is being used for it. The car owner gets most it for free for his use. The city indirectly pays for his car.
  
  While we are busy making bigger and wider roads many countries are moving in a different direction. Developed societies are not adding roads. Instead they are reducing cars and other private transport. Cities like Rome, Madrid, Copenhagen, Oslo and Mexico City are using methods like high parking fees, pedestrianising the streets in peak hours and keeping some days as no car days for curbing traffic. London, has started charging congestion fees from owners of cars and taxis coming to its central area.





• Long road ahead: Cities are saying ‘No’ to 5G, citing health, aesthetics.



• ‘Waterman of India’, Rajendra Singh: “Instead of politically administrative boundaries, we should recognise geo hydrological boundaries. Contractor-driven and corporate-driven solutions don't work. We need integrated watershed development”.

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• A vegetarian beef farmer protecting his stock from slaughter:




• Honor killing in Kerala: Neenu's father, who hailed from the Latin Catholic community strongly opposed his daughter's relationship with Kevin, a Dalit Christian.



• Savarkar believed in AIT? Savarkar settles for the AIT and seems to indicate that the Aryans came from Persia and thereabouts. He inferred that upon coming to this land they felt a deep sense of oneness and belonging to the river that sustained them.



• Wellness at workplace: Overworked Indian employees just want a room to nap at the workplace



• How a Differential works (1937):