By Buddhi Kota Subbarao Ph.D
15 December, 2011
Countercurrents.org
Countercurrents.org
While the social and political implications of the movement against Koodankulam nuclear power plant in southern India are being discussed nationwide, a Special Essay appeared in The Hindu, November 6, 2011 by Dr. A.P.J. Abudul Kalam & Mr. Srijan Pal Singh claiming “Nuclear power is our gateway to a prosperous future.” Abdul Kalam, former President of India, is qualified in aeronautical engineering and has experience in missile technology. Srijan Pal Singh has been working in the area of sustainable development.
A large section of the Indian public has no information or only a meagre information at their command, to know the claims and arguments of former Indian President Dr.Kalam are all ill founded. The face value of Kalam comes in the way of Indian public discovering that the enormous investment in nuclear power being advocated by Dr.Kalam and people like him is going to impoverish India and India is sure to face internal and external wars on water resources which would remain undeveloped and under developed on account of the disproportionate energy budget flowing towards the nuclear power research and installation. Hence this detailed Analytical Essay to counter the long Special Essay of Dr.Kalam.
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