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Hyderabad office space for sale, located in BashirBagh 1435 sq feet centrally located, one car space, 6th floor with lift, two bathrooms, vacant position, road side, sale price is 33 lakhs rupees (negotiable)

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“And then you contribute extra, to the obesity and all the things that come with the hamburger,” she said on a lighter vein.

Vandana quoted Robert Kennedy’s famous speech in 1968 about GDP, “It counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage… It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armoured cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities… Yet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials… it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile”.

Cult of consumerism

It is often said that the Green Revolution saved India from famine, and though it is hard to deny that it did, it also gave rise to monocultures, corporate control over seeds, the depletion of soil fertility and pollution of rivers from chemical run-off from the over-use of fertilisers and pesticides. That this also destroyed indigenous farming cultures and has since caused many suicides, is telling. The statistic of farmer suicides quoted by Vandana is 284,694 and that is only the ‘official’ figure, she points out, which is chilling. She asks everyone to take another look at