A rose or a ladder?

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A rose or a ladder? [1]

An argument over a Valentine's Day gift leads shubhranshu choudhary to the politics of an aluminium ladder

On the eve of Valentine's Day, a friend of my son persuades me to take my wife "out for dinner and buy her a nice gift'. I thank her for the idea but do not ask her to hazard a guess on my choice. She is understandably horrified to hear that I had purchased an aluminium ladder to complement my wife's new bookshelf, and admonishes me, "You could have bought her a rose.'

I argue that an aluminium ladder is a more ethical gift than a corporate rose. I invite her to take a look at the politics of corporate roses, grown on leased farms in Asia and Africa. Within a few years, the land is ruined by excessive pesticide and fertilizer use

Publication Date:

14/01/2008

Source: Down to Earth [2]

Tags:

Land Resources [3], Land Ownership [4], Mining [5], Mineral-Based Industry [6], Aluminium Industry [7], Bauxite [8], Displacement [9], Tribals [10], Compensation [11], Poverty [12], Supreme Court [13], Human Rights [14], India [15], Chhattisgarh [16], Naxalites [17], Rural Poverty [18]

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