Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?
Union Home Minister Amit Shah's comment that Modi govt has resolved the water-sharing dispute to finally supply river’s waters to Karnataka has left BJP in Goa on the defensive.
The dispute with Goa is over 40 years old, and involves Karnataka’s demand for 24 tmcft of water to be diverted from the Mahadayi for its drinking needs.
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Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
Absolutely! You are spot on.
And yet, India and Pakistan had agreed to divide the Indus river basin waters under the treaty facilitated by the World Bank.
Why did you not come up with this “logic” back then? Or do you subscribe to this “logic” now?
If this is the case, why don’t you champion the case of granting all waters to Pakistan, since, by your own logic “a living river cannot be divided like property”.
As long as things benefit your home state of Punjab, you would not utter a word against it. For others, the yardstick is different, isn’t it?
Absolutely! You are spot on.
And yet, India and Pakistan had agreed to divide the Indus river basin waters under the treaty facilitated by the World Bank.
Why did you not come up with this “logic” back then? Or do you subscribe to this “logic” now?
If this is the case, why don’t you champion the case of granting all waters to Pakistan, since, by your own logic “a living river cannot be divided like property”.
As long as things benefit your home state of Punjab, you would not utter a word against it. For others, the yardstick is different, isn’t it?