News for 'Nityanand Jayaraman'

'Nuclear power plants pose unmanageable risks'

When dealing with risky technology, it is most important to take people into confidence and tell them what the real risks are, says environment justice activist Nityanand Jayaraman.

Why does it take disaster to evoke compassion?

European Parliament offers to help clean UCC site

Twenty-three members of the European Parliament have in a letter to Prime Minsiter Dr Manmohan Singh offered support for efforts of the Government of India in assessing environmental contamination in Bhopal, Nityanand Jayaraman of the organisation International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal has claimed.

Be warned! RTI plea can bring cops to you

Budding RTI activist from Chennai files request with ONGC. Instead of response, police comes asking about her.

Criticality may mean death for Kudankulam's seas

The first two units of the Kudankulam nuclear plant will discharge 6.3 billion litres of waste water every day right onto the beach. This discharge will trigger a slow-motion disaster that will poison beaches, devastate near-shore fisheries and choke the livelihood of fisherfolk in the vicinity, says Nityanand Jayaraman.

Kodaikanal issue: Unilever promises to take action

Unilever said it was "working actively" to find a solution to a long-pending dispute on ecology contamination by its unit at Kodaikanal.

'You can't bribe nature'

'You have to respect nature. You won't respect nature unless you see nature's fury.'

'What Tamil pride when close to 100 farmers have committed suicide?'

'We see different people bringing different resentments and we feel this is the result of the deprivation of an identity because of the reintroduction of Hindi, the Hindutva overtones in the national discourse, the betrayal of the Dravidian parties and even small things like the Devanagiri script in the Rs 2,000 note.'

'There is only one law and that is the law of nature!'

'Nature doesn't bother even if the Supreme Court says it is legal!' 'If something is in the wrong place, it will be damaged or destroyed by nature.'