On August 17 hundreds of farmers attacked Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Company in China because their children were being poisoned with lead discharged from the factory. In response authorities sent in hundreds of police surrounding the villages forcing the villagers to flee. Chinese are uncivilised beasts but not so we Indians, right? Turns out that children in Punjab are suffering from uranium poisoning, causing micro cephaly, hydrocephaly and spasticity, from fly ash produced by coal fired power stations.This is especially severe around Bucho Mandi where children have the highest levels, upto 60 times the safe level in one case. This was discovered by Dr. Carin Smit, a South African metal toxicologist who sent samples to a German laboratory for analysis. There was no doubt. She has been warned that her visa may not be renewed. Fellows from the Dept. of Atomic Energy visited the site and found levels ' slightly high ' and ' nothing to worry about '. Indian industry is losing some Rs. 4 trillion a year because of poor and intermittent power supply but this is squarely the fault of the criminal politicians and uncivil servants who have conspired to keep the people poor so that they can lord over the aam aadmi. Yet little children end up paying a horrific price. This was a result of an investigation by the Observer printed in the Guardian Weekly of November 4. Our footlicking press remains silent on this horrible crime but cannot stop saying that Chandrayan moon mission was a failure. Creeps.