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The perils of simplistic ‘sustainability’ in South Asia

In 2004, India’s railway minister at the time, Laloo Prasad Yadav, proposed a set of innovations that included the introduction of small traditional clay cups called kulhads as a potential replacement for plastic and waxed-paper cups. The former could persist intact in the ecosystem for decades, taking centuries to degrade fully, while the latter would […]

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