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Book Shelf

d-sector takes a look at the world of books and brings to its readers commentary on selected titles that provide interesting insights on various facets of human development. The short-reviews are aimed at generating interest on the subject as much as adding variety to the contents on the portal. While recent non-fiction books will feature prominently on this page, some vintage books of immense significance will be revisited as well. Sudhirendar Sharma will run this page for d-sector every month.
 
Publishers are encouraged to send their books for commentary on d-sector though the selection of books for review will remain the prerogative of the d-sector team.

 

River Dog
Posting Date: 05 Apr 2013

Provocations for Development
Posting Date: 05 Apr 2013



Water Drops
Posting Date: 05 Apr 2013

Psychology in the Bathroom
Posting Date: 08 Mar 2013



China's Silent Army
Posting Date: 08 Mar 2013

Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order
Posting Date: 31 Dec 2012



Rippling: How social entrepreneurs spread innovation
Posting Date: 31 Dec 2012

Architecture and Design versus Consumerism
Posting Date: 31 Dec 2012



Why doesn't microfinance work?
Posting Date: 30 Nov 2012

The new religious intolerance
Posting Date: 30 Nov 2012



River Bagmati: Bounties become a curse
Posting Date: 30 Nov 2012

What Money Can't Buy
Posting Date: 28 Oct 2012



Science and Public Reason
Posting Date: 28 Oct 2012

Slam-dunking Walmart
Posting Date: 28 Oct 2012



School Education: Pluralism and Marginality
Posting Date: 18 Sep 2012

Zero Degrees of Empathy
Posting Date: 18 Sep 2012



Why everyone (else) is a hypocrite
Posting Date: 18 Sep 2012

On Bullshit
Posting Date: 30 Jun 2012



The Shaman in Stilettos
Posting Date: 30 Jun 2012

How much is enough
Posting Date: 30 Jun 2012



Growing stories from India
Posting Date: 30 Apr 2012

Slow Violence and Environmentalism of the Poor
Posting Date: 30 Apr 2012



Water: Asia's New Battleground
Posting Date: 30 Apr 2012

Big-box Swindle
Posting Date: 30 Nov 2011



Unnatural Selection
Posting Date: 30 Nov 2011

Climate Change
Posting Date: 06 Oct 2011



Dead Ringers
Posting Date: 06 Oct 2011

The Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas
Posting Date: 05 Oct 2011



Consumptionomics
Posting Date: 06 Jul 2011

Corporate Water Strategies
Posting Date: 06 Jul 2011



Understanding Gandhi
New Delhi |  Posting Date: 06 Jul 2011

Economy of Permanence
Posting Date: 27 Mar 2011



Alien Technology
Posting Date: 27 Mar 2011

How to Win Campaigns
Posting Date: 27 Mar 2011



Rural Poverty Report 2011
Posting Date: 24 Feb 2011

The Sustainability Transformation
Posting Date: 24 Feb 2011



Interrogating Development
Posting Date: 24 Feb 2011

State of India's Livelihoods Report 2010
Posting Date: 31 Jan 2011



Transboundary Water Management
Posting Date: 31 Jan 2011

Chinamerica
Posting Date: 31 Jan 2011



The Spirit Level
Posting Date: 23 Nov 2010

Delete
Posting Date: 23 Nov 2010



McDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om Economics
Posting Date: 23 Nov 2010

Rebels for the Soil
Posting Date: 30 Oct 2010



Outlaw
Posting Date: 30 Oct 2010

Poverty Capital
Posting Date: 30 Oct 2010



Power and Love
Posting Date: 09 Sep 2010

Ant Encounters
Posting Date: 09 Sep 2010



Out of this Earth
Posting Date: 09 Sep 2010

Small Change
Posting Date: 23 Jul 2010



What's eating you?
Posting Date: 23 Jul 2010

Fair deals for watershed services
Posting Date: 23 Jul 2010



Good Cop, Bad Cop
Posting Date: 12 Jun 2010

What Works in Development?
Posting Date: 12 Jun 2010



The Aid Trap
Posting Date: 12 Jun 2010

Vulnerable India
Posting Date: 09 May 2010



The Conservative Nanny State
Posting Date: 09 May 2010

Criminal Tribes of Punjab
Posting Date: 09 May 2010



The Vanishing Face of Gaia
Posting Date: 06 Apr 2010

Taming the Anarchy
Posting Date: 06 Apr 2010



Portfolios of the Poor
Posting Date: 06 Apr 2010

When the Rivers Run Dry
Posting Date: 08 Mar 2010



Inclusive Value Chains in India
Posting Date: 08 Mar 2010

Squatting with Dignity
Posting Date: 08 Mar 2010



A Calendar of Resistance
Posting Date: 15 Feb 2010

The New Economics
Posting Date: 15 Feb 2010



Foreign Aid for Indian NGOs
Posting Date: 15 Feb 2010

The Atlas of Water
Posting Date: 07 Jan 2010



Women in Green
Posting Date: 07 Jan 2010

Hind Swaraj
Posting Date: 07 Jan 2010



Unleashing Nepal
Posting Date: 09 Dec 2009

Why not socialism?
Posting Date: 09 Dec 2009



India: The Emerging Giant
Posting Date: 09 Dec 2009

Coke Nation

The news that Indians consume far less aerated beverages each year than their neighbours in Pakistan and China could be interpreted differently. In comparison to per capita annual consumption of 39 and 21 bottles of aerated drinks in China and Pakistan respectively, average Indian drinks just about 14 bottles in a year. For Coca-Cola this means a serious job at hand for which the company has announced an advertisement budget of $5 billion. For the company, economic growth of a country and its peoples' thirst for aerated beverages is directly coorelated. 

Coca-Cola doesn't consider 'negative' publicity for cola behind poor consumption of the aerated beverage in India. As per its books, brand Coca-Cola has registered consecutive growth for past 27 quarters and has been a leader with a brand volume of 30 per cent. For Coca-Cola the target is to turn it into a 'Coke Nation', on the lines of Mexico where per capita annual consumption is 745 bottles..Whether Indian consumer exercises restraint in gulping the drink whose health consequences are all but known, the flipside to the story is that  the state governments are falling prey to Coca-Cola's investment plans?

Waste Appetite

The clock has turned full circle! After dumping industrial and toxic trash in the developing world all these years, Europe is now shopping for garbage to keep its cities, schools and homes heated. What better place than the developing world to shop for garbage! Reports indicate that northern Europe needs more than 700 million tons of trash to keep its waste-to-energy plants running. Most of its current demand is either domestically met or from garbage shipped from southern Europe.Yet, the demand is far more than what neighboring countries can spare after meeting their domestic needs. 

As more waste incinerators are being built in Sweden, Norway, Austria and Germany to meet the growing demand for heating public places, these countries are left with two options - either encourage households to produce more trash or else import garbage from across the world. For sure, it is easy to import than to produce! A company in England is already shipping some 1,000 tons of garbage to keep its systems running. Since incinerators have cornered environmental controversy in India and for rightful reasons, there exists an opportunity to explore feasibility of exporting as much as 109,589 tonnes of garbage that piles our streets on a daily basis. 

Lead View
To pee or not to pee
By Sudhirendar Sharma
21 Apr 2013

Sustained pollution of major rivers; continuous decline in groundwater reserves; priority allocation to non-consumptive sectors; and, growing disparity in water distribution only indicates that the worst is still to come!..
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Water Drops

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River Dog

Psychology in the Bathroom
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