Love Thy Neighbour

Why is India called a peninsula? (2 marks)

Remember that question from your Class VIII Geography textbook?

Ignoring the obvious answer, I was thinking on other lines. India is also unique in its being covered by problems on three sides problems and well.. no-problems* on one side.

Think of it:

West/North-West:
Pakistan (By the way, NY Times has called Pakistan "arguably the most dangerous country on earth")

North/North East:
China - Inspite of being a huge huge country, they still want parts of Arunachal Pradesh. Sigh.

East:
Bangladesh, which is making every effort to emulate Pakistan.
Nepal - I mean what's with all the political instability - you have no Mayawati/Devegowda there!

(Sri Lanka is a spoiler though - If it was not for the LTTE , our waters would have atleast been trouble-free!)

And they say, Love thy neighbour.

Food for a week

The plight of the under-developed nations in comparison with the developed nations is best illustrated by the couple of pics that follow.

Food for a week - Darfur refugees, Chad:

Food for a week, Germany:

I am sure the economic recession has no bearing on the people in Darfur, for they would not even know what a booming economy means.

Sourc: Peter Menzel, 2005.