Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Good Morning Thought - 1st August 2012


The showering Rain, the pouring Rain,
Come, come, and come again…
Your days are not yet over,
Bless us with the heavenly shower…
The dry plants want to bloom,
None of us want a gloom…
Why deprive us of our share,
Aren’t you having the affaire de coeur?
All that we have to cheer about,
Are you not the source of thou?


Ranjan Panda

Monday, July 30, 2012

Good Morning Thought for 31st July 2012


Love, care and trust make the world a small and beautiful place to live.  The meanderings of our life approach a settled destination the day we realize this…



Ranjan Panda

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Good Morning Thought for 30th July 2012


Number of vehicles on busy city streets does not symbolize growth; as each one of them are being driven by persons whose sole aim is to meet their personal goals. It’s no progress the worth when thousands of vehicles move on the street but no one has the time to stop to lend a helping hand to an accident victim.    Civilized life is not only when you stop at red traffic signals…



Ranjan Panda

Friday, July 27, 2012

Weekend Thought for 28th July 2012!


Emotional outbursts fuelled by anger are like drug shot jerks that erupt only to decay and destroy you…


Good Morning!
Have a Great Weekend!!

Ranjan Panda

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Good Morning thought for 27th July 2012


In the conventional societal order, class decides how you are accepted.  So, when a rich asks for help its termed ‘donation’; but when a poor does the same we charge the person with begging.  Similarly, when a five star mall puts an exorbitant price on a product, we don’t ask a single question; but when a road side vendor asks for genuine price, we bargain…



Ranjan Panda

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Good Morning Thought for 26th July 2012


Development is a one way traffic that carries all resources – both people and natural - from rural areas for creation of the urban riches, leaving behind a trail of destruction and deprivation…


Ranjan Panda 

Friday, July 20, 2012

Thought for 21st July 2012


EARTHY AFFAIRS:

When Rain falls for Earth,
Earth’s gravity does the work...
As the showers pour and pour,
The rivers flow mad in love…



Ranjan Panda

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Good Morning thought for 16th July 2012!


In a true relationship there is an intimate bond but that does not restrict the freedom of the two who are bonded to each other.  We may call it ‘freedom of bonding’…



Good Morning! Have a Great Week!

Ranjan Panda

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Friday, July 13, 2012

Good Morning thought for 14th July 2012


Words may be splendid or not, they are effective if they communicate what you want to…



Ranjan Panda 

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Good Morning thought for 13th July 2012

Sacrificing for a common cause is the poor’s cup of tea; drawing benefits from the common pool is the rich’s share of Right…


Ranjan Panda

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Good Morning thought for 12th July 2012


It is better to be alone than being with company of fool, selfish and greedy people.  If you are intelligent enough, you will realize that Mother Nature is always accompanying you and hence you are never alone in reality…



Ranjan Panda

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Good Morning thought for 11th July 2012


Water has been God’s billet-doux to human race.  It has given us life and reasons to celebrate it.  By abusing water to an irrecoverable extent, however, we have already waged a war against God …



Ranjan Panda

Monday, July 9, 2012

Good morning thought for 10th July 2012


A mirror may not lie but it can’t be a critique either.  It satisfies or at best scares you, if you are so much of a look-conscious person.  But it cannot replace a true friend who helps you through appreciation and criticism…



Ranjan Panda

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Good Morning thought for 9th July 2012


The human mind is blessed with immense capabilities, yet insufficient to imagine entities that are shapeless.  That’s exactly why we tend to give a shape to dreams, ghosts and even faith…



Good morning! Have a great week!!

Ranjan Panda

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Good Morning Thought for Sunday 8th July 2012


Bribing God is the root and height of corruption…



Good Morning!  Have a Great Sunday!!

Ranjan Panda

Friday, July 6, 2012

Good morning thought for 7th July 2012


The next step is uncertain, yet we take it.  The next moment is unknown, yet we visualize it.  The next identity is a stranger, yet we trust it.  This is because we trust life than death...


Good Morning and a Great Weekend!

Ranjan Panda

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Thought for 6th July 2012


In today’s world, as more and more people jump to be enslaved to fast communication devices & mediums, what we see is a growing era of restlessness in expectations and hence frustrations…



Ranjan Panda

American Power Plants suffocate and kill Native Americans


Dear Friends, 

FYI for you a news that shows how the American power plants are suffocating and killing the indigenous communities there.  

We face similar issues but hardly there is any talk about taking these bloody polluters to courts.  This is also because we have a near to zero efficient Pollution Control Board which does not help the people to prove pollution but the plants/industries to cover up it. 

Hope these polluters will be taken to task soon.

Thanks and regards,

Ranjan

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Many Native Americans live next to power plants


MOAPA, Nev. - Beyond the ancestral hunting fields and the rows of small, sparse homes, the cemetery at the Moapa River Indian Reservation sprawls across a barren hill with the tombstones of tribal members who died young.

Their deaths haunt this small desert community outside Las Vegas. Children play indoors, afraid they might be next. Hoping to keep out the air they believe is killing their people, tribal elders keep their windows shut and avoid growing food on the land where their ancestors once found sustenance.

The Moapa Paiutes need not travel far to stare down their perceived enemy: The coal-powered plant blamed for polluting the southern Nevada reservation's air and water is visible from nearly every home.

"Everybody is sick," said Vicki Simmons, whose brother worked at the Reid Gardner Generating Station for 10 years before dying at age 31 with heart problems.

Across the country, a disproportionate number of power plants operate near or on tribal lands. NV Energy maintains its plant near the Moapa Paiute reservation is safe and has been upgraded with the required clean emissions technologies.

Meanwhile, local, state and federal health agencies say they cannot conduct accurate health studies to verify the tribe's complaints because the sample size would be too small.
In all, about 10 percent of all power plants operate within 20 miles of reservation land, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Many of those 51 energy production centers are more than a half-century old and affect roughly 48 tribes living on 50 reservations. Fewer than 2 percent of all people in the United States identify as Native American and only a small portion live on tribal land.

In many cases, Native American leaders have long embraced energy development as an economic opportunity for communities battling widespread unemployment.

But a growing backlash has some tribal leaders questioning whether the health and environmental risks associated with energy production has put their people in harm's way. 

While it's not conclusive that coal operations pose a direct danger to reservation residents, the Moapa Paiutes are one of several tribes demanding the closure of their neighborhood power plants.

Sherry Smith, a history professor who co-edited the book "Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest," said hardly anyone paid attention or were aware of potential environmental consequences when the power plants were built decades ago.

"These are not simply people who have been duped by the government or the energy corporations," said Smith, director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Texas. "They are simply 21st century people who are coping with the same issues the rest of us are about economic development and the environmental consequences and having to weigh these things."

Among the nation's 564 diverse tribal entities, energy production is widely debated. Many support environmental protections as a natural extension of American Indian values. But tribal leaders also aspire to protect their culture by keeping members on the reservation. Jobs and economic opportunity are necessary, energy production proponents say, and power plants fill the gap.

On one end of the spectrum is the Navajo Nation, the country's largest reservation, with five power plants near or on its sprawling territory in the Southwest. The tribe has embraced coal production as a central component of its economy, and Navajo officials traveled to Washington in June to oppose proposed EPA regulations to make the plants more environmentally sound. The new requirements would kill jobs, tribal leaders said.

On the other side of the debate have been members of tribes such as the Moapa Paiutes and the Northern Cheyenne of Montana, which for years blamed local energy companies for the health woes plaguing residents on their reservations.

In Moapa, Yvette Chevalier said she became ill within weeks of moving last year to the reservation, which sits 2 miles from the decades-old coal plant that sometimes infuses nearby skies with gray fumes. Gary Lee said he recently lost 40 pounds because of health troubles.

Former Tribal Chairman Vernon Lee said it's not unusual for members to be hospitalized.

"There have been a lot of heart attacks," Lee said. "Many young people died."

When coal is burned, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and mercury compounds are released into the air, according to the EPA. Research has shown those fine particles can be linked to serious health problems, including premature death.

Children, who breathe more often, and senior citizens, who tend to have health problems agitated by pollution, are particularly vulnerable, said Colleen McKaughan, an associate director in the EPA's air division.

In Montana, the Northern Cheyenne live near the state's largest coal-power plant, the Colstrip Steam Plant. The four-unit power plant operated by PPL Montana produces 2,200 megawatts of electricity and is one of the largest employers in eastern Montana with roughly 400 workers. Many in the tribe want it shut down.

In northeastern Utah, the Ute Indian Tribe has threatened to sue Deseret Power over pollution from its 30-year-old plant on the reservation, which generates 500-megawatts of electricity. Ozone readings in the region can reach nearly twice the limit considered safe by the EPA, especially during winter months.

"They are legitimately concerned about the impact the power plant has on the reservation," said Michael Harris, a lawyer representing the tribe.

Harris said some tribal members have complained of asthma attacks and cancer clusters and the plant might be to blame. Deseret Power did not respond to a request for comment.

To be sure, tribes fighting energy companies are the exceptions.

The massive Four Corners Steam Plant sits on Navajo land in Fruitland, N.M., where the Arizona Public Service Company says it generates 2,040 megawatts of electricity and serves New Mexico, Arizona, California and Texas.

Tribal members who work at the power plants earn roughly triple the average Navajo family income of about $20,000 per year. The tribe expects to receive more than $7 million annually from the two power plants on its land under its latest lease proposals.

"A lot of our own people who are critical of coal are not understanding the economic benefits," said Stephen Etsitty, executive director of the Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency. "It's easy to perceive a problem when you see a big power plant smoke stack ... but that often causes you not to look at other areas of concern."

In Moapa, Simmons , whose 31-year-old brother passed away after working at Reid Gardner Generating Station , can see the Nevada power plant from her kitchen window. It reminds her of her brother's death.

She also frets for her 24-year-old son, who works at the plant and comes home with ash-covered skin. His wife is pregnant with Simmon's first grandchild.

"The land is poisoned," she said. "I don't even open my window because I don't like to look at it."

- CRISTINA SILVA, The Associated Press


-- 
Ranjan K Panda

Convenor
Water Initiatives Odisha: Fighting water woes, combating climate change... more than two decades now!

INDIA

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Thought for 5th July 2012


Friendship is not an adjustment between the status, positions or ego of the two; but a relationship that abolishes all that and gives a common identity to share and cherish…



Good morning friends!

Ranjan Panda

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Thought for 4th July 2012


Words and currencies share a unique relationship.  Everyone wants to have more of them but no one knows whose mouths and hands they have been in…



Ranjan Panda

MDG Goals on Water and Sanitation: Have we decided to tread water or are serious about achieving them?


On Monday 2nd July, the 2012 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report was launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.  The report says, among other things, that the target of halving the proportion of people without access to improved  sources of water has been achieved half a decade before the deadline.  As the report mentions, "the target of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water was also met by 2010, with the proportion of people using an improved water source rising from 76 per cent in 1990 to 89 per cent in 2010. Between 1990 and 2010, over two billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources, such as piped supplies and protected wells".

This is being termed as a milestone development.  However, can we really be happy about these achievements?  India, as the report says, has made headway in reducing poverty and with regard to providing drinking water access to much of its people.  However, it is still far away from improving sanitation coverage and other important aspects like food security, maternal mortality and gender equity.  

Globally the targets, as claimed by the report, have been met.  However, in a country like India we just cant claim comfort about the improvement in drinking water access without addressing other key issues such as the above.  In fact, only access to drinking water will never be able to ensure sanitation coverage.  Further there is no assessment of the qualitative coverage of drinking water and that of sanitation as well.  And the report in no way takes into account the reduced availability of water resource as a whole.

We think there is a need for a serious debate on the MDGs afresh taking into consideration factors that will make India(and for that matter other poor countries) miss the targets by 2015.  

First, we must look into the ways we are urbanizing at the moment, which has been very arrogant, abusive and unsustainable.  We have already charted a path for numerous and fierce battles between urban areas and rural areas to have control over the limited and reducing water resources.  And, in the way, as the access to water will be increasingly linked to the capacity to pay, the battles will go fiercer.  This is because the urban population will have a much faster and higher growth of their income compared to their rural counterparts.  

Take for example Delhi which is already planning to displace people and destroy pristine ecology in the North East to meet its greedy water needs.  Delhi has cash, North East has ecological resource.  And there are hundreds of such examples of various scales depending on the size of the city. 

So, the increase in access of water for the urban habitations, including the slums, would continue to keep us under the false impression of 'increased coverage' of the targets. There would be hardly any statistics available on the amount of people (in the rural areas) who would be deprived of their water resources to provide water to their urban counterparts.  Also, there would hardly be any data available on the negative impacts of this access of water on the ecology of the areas from where the water will be sourced.  This means there will be no ways at our hands to assess the factors that will make the so called 'access' unsustainable and by when.  

So, I don't think there is hardly anything to cheer about the global achievement figures that have been put up by the MDG 2012 report.  To meet the MDG targets on water and sanitation, we need to have source sustainability and recharging at each locality including the urban habitations.  We have to free the rivers and other surface water bodies from all forms of encroachment (including that of pollution) both in rural and urban areas.  We have to see that no urban area is allowed to take water from the rural areas and ecology simply because it has the money to pay for it. 

Local sustainability of sources can only achieve global goals.  

Hope we can debate more and can show a way. 

- Ranjan Panda
  Convenor, Water Initiatives Odisha

Will the ADB ever learn a lesson from bad projects like Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Plant?


Dear friends,

Greetings from Water Initiatives Odisha!

During the AGM of ADB this year we had alarmed President Haruhiko Kuroda about the serious implications of its finance to coal-fired power plants.  While the President could not give a satisfying answer to this question, people across the projects it finances have realized that ADB is going ahead with such projects which are a curse to the people and environment. 

An eminent panel of people today released a document at Delhi showing how the Tata Mundra Power Project (ADB is one of the financers of this project) is having devastating socio-economic and ecological consequences.  The release from today’s panel discussion that I have pasted below explains it all. (To read the detailed report, you can email us at ranjanpanda@gmail.com) However, for the easy reference of the readers, I would like to highlight the following points that IFIs including ADB need to immediately look into, as suggested by the panel members:

- The IFC and ADB failed to require the company to conduct a cumulative impact study. The project, sited in the vicinity of several other large-scale polluting industries, will have significant cumulative impacts on the local population and environment, yet no cumulative impact assessment has been performed.

 - The IFC and ADB failed to require the company to conduct and/or disclose chemical pollution studies. The fact-finding team confirmed high chemical content and increasing acidity in the outlet water from the project, which is detrimental to fish eggs and larvae. This harm warrants further, in-depth investigation.

- The IFC and ADB failed to require the company to conduct adequate, meaningful, and informed consultations with the affected communities. The communities repeatedly complained about the lack of consultation before the project started and failure to share key information about the impacts and mitigation plans.

Answering to Water Initiatives Odisha’s questions during the civil society interaction at the AGM President Kuroda admitted, albeit indirectly, that the Bank is yet to do much on clean energy front.  Siting examples of various documents, when WIO asked about the increased lending of ADB in coal fired power plants, President Kuroda had only to say that ADB needs to be further strict on financing such power plants.  What was more prominently asked to ADB was whether the regional ecological impact assessments for the lending countries was being taken into consideration in financing such projects or no.  The issues are well under consideration, as the President informed, but the efforts are not enough as one could judge from the responses. 

Can the ADB take a cue from the findings of the eminent panellists and mend its ways?  Can it ever learn a lesson from such bad and nasty projects? 

Coal kills and projects like the one under scrutiny here act like a medium.  Sooner ADB learns the real lessons the better.  It will not only save its finances from getting dirty but also help save the Mother Earth from further devastations.

Thanks and regards,

Ranjan


  
Tata Mundra:  Eminent Panel finds serious social and environmental violations.
Recommends immediate suspension of financing and calls for full project review

New Delhi: “The (Tata Mundra Ultra Mega) project has disproportionately high social, environmental, and economic costs. The company, the licensing agencies of the Government of Gujarat and India, and the national and international financial institutions have either ignored or willfully neglected the high social and environmental costs and did little to mitigate them” a report released by an independent fact finding team said here today.

The report adds: “The Social Impact Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment are misleading and erroneous, having excluded a large number of communities whose loss of livelihood was overlooked. Cumulative impact studies required to understand the overall impacts were not done. The governments and the IFIs are equally complicit in the violations by the company.”

Coming at a time when India is facing its worst coal crisis with rising prices and supply shortage, the report signifies yet another body blow to the 4000 MW Tata Mundra project.

The panel recommends that “International Financial Institutions should undertake an immediate review of the project to examine adherence of their safeguard polices; until such a review is done, their financial assistance to the project should be suspended.” Among the banks in question are the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

The report was authored by a team led by retired Chief Justice of Sikkim, S N Bhargava. Other members include Dr. Varadarajan Sampath (former Ministry of Earth Sciences Advisor of the Government of India); distinguished journalist and author Praful Bidwai; Jarjum Ete (former Chairperson of Commission for Women in Arunachal Pradesh), and Soumya Dutta (National Convener of the Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha). The team visited Mundra in April and May 2012, met senior company staff including its CEO Mr. KK Sharma, held meetings with affected communities and perused voluminous documents to inform its findings.

The fact finding was carried out at the request of communities impacted by the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP).  The report found that the concerns communities raised about India’s first UMPP are complex, disturbing, and require comprehensive investigation, which should cover not just environmental and social harms but also economic impacts and destruction of livelihoods. The reported policy violations, including breaches of applicable IFC Performance Standards and ADB Safeguards – a key project financier – are significant and can be irreversible, warranting an independent and objective probe.

Located in an ecologically-fragile area of Kutch and sited within the vicinity of the Mundra Special Economic Zone, the Tata UMPP is one of several large-scale energy projects within a 70-km stretch that are projected to produce a total of 22,000 MW of power.

“The findings of this report was revealing to us. What was most shocking was that the licensing agencies, the concerned Ministries at the Center and state, and the international financial institutions failed to monitor the project closely and did almost nothing to prevent the enormous damage it is causing to flora and fauna, and the people. We hope the concerned authorities will take appropriate actions immediately” said Justice Bhargava who headed the fact-finding team.

The US$ 4 billion Tata plant is financed by a consortium of banks including the IFC, ADB, the Export-Import Bank of Korea, and the Korea Export Insurance Corporation. Local financiers include BNP Paribas and Indian sources such as the State Bank of India, India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd., Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd., Oriental Bank of Commerce, Vijaya Bank, State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Travancore, and the State Bank of Indore.
  
What the panel finds

1. The Environmental and Social Impact Assessments filed by the company were deficient.  The company failed to account for significant social, economic, and environmental damages caused by the project in its EIA and SIA, and even neglected to identify certain communities as project affected.

2. The IFC and ADB failed to require the company to conduct a cumulative impact study. The project, sited in the vicinity of several other large-scale polluting industries, will have significant cumulative impacts on the local population and environment, yet no cumulative impact assessment has been performed.

3. The IFC and ADB failed to require the company to conduct and/or disclose chemical pollution studies. The fact-finding team confirmed high chemical content and increasing acidity in the outlet water from the project, which is detrimental to fish eggs and larvae. This harm warrants further, in-depth investigation.

4. The IFC and ADB failed to require the company to conduct adequate, meaningful, and informed consultations with the affected communities. The communities repeatedly complained about the lack of consultation before the project started and failure to share key information about the impacts and mitigation plans.

5. The project violated its environmental clearance by destroying inland ecosystems. Large stretches of mangroves, dry-land forests, and biodiversity-rich creeks were destroyed for the construction of the inlet and outfall channels and other associated activities of the project. The team could not find the required forest clearance for this destruction, which the company refuses to own up to. 

6. The project violated its environmental clearance by adopting a one-through cooling system. The project was permitted for a closed-cycle cooling system, but installed a cheaper, more environmentally-destructive one-through cooling system.

7. The project blocked access to fishing and grazing grounds. Access roads for the fisher-folk and the pastoralists to fishing and grazing grounds have either been blocked or diverted, forcing villagers to take an unusually long route and pay more for their transport, and resulting in considerable delay for women returning from the markets after selling fish. 

8. The project has caused drastic reduction in fish catches, destroying the livelihoods of local fisher-folk. Available fish-catch data indicate considerable reduction in fish catch in the past three years since the adjacent Adani plant was commissioned, which has been exacerbated by the partial commissioning of Tata Mundra. Communities fear total loss of aquatic wealth when the project is fully operational, along with their livelihoods as fisher-folk—a clear violation of IFC policies.

9. The project failed to thoroughly examine or adequately address the health and environmental impacts of ash contamination from the project.  The partially-operational plant is already contaminating drying fish, salt, and animal fodder in the area, causing significant health concerns. Salt contamination has been demonstrated to cause an increase of diseases and abnormal abortions in cattle.  Further, heavy metals contained in toxic coal ash—such as cadmium, lead, selenium, and mercury—are known to bio-accumulate in animal and human bodies.

10. The project ignored the potential impacts of radioactivity from the coal ash pond. Independent readings taken as far as 400 meters away from the ash pond recorded radiation levels that were double those found in the villages. While this reading is about half the permissible limit, the project is only one-fifth operational, with four more units planned. None of the impact assessments have addressed this.

11. The company significantly underestimated its bid, resulting in cost overruns and increased energy tariffs for customers. In its bid for the Mundra UMPP, Tata Power significantly underestimated the material cost of plant construction and the operational cost of fuel—namely imported coal—resulting in significant cost overruns.  With the project only one-fifth completed, the company is already seeking to be released from its negotiated Power Purchase Agreement with five states, asking for an increase of the agreed-upon electricity tariff by 35% for average individual consumers.   

What the panel recommends

The company is urged to compute and monetize all the social and environmental costs and add these to the project costs; compensate all local people for their livelihood losses; create a fund for the restoration of mangroves destroyed; restore people’s access to fishing and grazing grounds, and to salt-pans unconditionally; and employ all possible pollution control measures on a war footing, to save this fragile zone from further damage.

The Governments of India and Gujarat are urged to put a moratorium on permission to any more industry/power plants in Mundra/Kutch; issue show cause notice to the CGPL/Tata Mundra for multiple violations of clearance conditions; form independent expert committee(s) to thoroughly investigate all pollution, contamination, and radioactivity hazards within a reasonable time frame; and direct all national banks/financial institutions to adopt and enforce mandatory social and environmental safeguard policies at a reasonable timeframe.

The international financial institutions  are urged to undertake an immediate review of the project to examine adherence of their safeguard polices; suspend financial assistance until such a review is done; putting in place an independent monitoring mechanism to ensure strict compliance of their safeguard policies. Meanwhile, the national financial institutions should adopt social and environmental policies and implement them scrupulously in this project. The implementation should be monitored by independent agencies, which include the affected people’s representatives.

(Received from Joe Athialy of BIC)

-- 
Ranjan K Panda

Convenor
Water Initiatives Odisha: Fighting water woes, combating climate change... more than two decades now!

INDIA

Mobile:             +919437050103      
You can also mail me at: ranjan.waterman@facebook.com

Skype: ranjan.climatecrusader

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Please join our group 'Save Rivers Save Civilizations' at http://www.facebook.com/groups/220598744649462

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Water Initiatives Odisha (WIO) is a state level coalition of civil society organisations, farmers, academia, media and other concerned, which has been working on water, environment and climate change issues in the state for more than two decades now.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Thought for 3rd July 2012


The miles one travels after the final mortal sleep are no more mathematical but only memorial.  To earn those miles one has to be a human being and a societal fellow, not a selfish and greedy brat…

Ranjan Panda