Sreeram Srinivasan

It has been a few weeks since I wrote the first part of the above subject. India's had her elections and I have been comprehensively proved wrong on my prediction about the third front and M (not the current PM) playing a key role. I have read somewhere that only sages and fools indulge in prophecies and I know I can lay no claim to sanctity!! :-) Let us come to the subject at hand. Things are starting to look good now with the stock market smartly rallying by as much as 50% over last few weeks and the India's GDP numbers looking respectable at 6.7% for FY09 with positive projections for FY10. Stock markets are also rallying globally from Russia to Brazil. Note that in the same time crude prices have gone up quietly by almost 50% and by lesser extent, a few more commodities and metals. The world's going gaga over the new American president and his first 100 days in office and there is hope that the downturn has bottomed out even if recovery is not yet at hand. Global econ

My poem for this Environment Day... June 5th 2009   Why do we care so much, for this  speck of dust in this vast expanse,  so many ice ages, upheavals so many,  before even man made his appearance!!  Why Man is blamed for all that goes  wrong: hot summers, a cold winter,  and sometimes the opposite but still  poor Man's the target of every baiter.  Oh! May be there is truth to all this  panic about a long sustainable earth,  But tell me this, did we not get here  by sustaining life and conquering death?  Maybe the nature that we altered was  not life nor the wildlife or vegetation  but what Man feared most - death, by  giving life a chance right from gestation.  So why give life a chance as the most  rabid environmentalists that proclaim.....  Let's stop docs that prolong life and  give nuclear scientists much acclaim! :-)  An aside remark to the above poem   Was fine till the white man was ahead,  everything that felt good was clean,  Browns, yellows and blacks want the  goodi