“Over the last year, sales surged 11 percent in China and 47 percent in India, a country of a billion people whose seemingly insatiable appetite for gold - for jewelry, temples and dowries - has traditionally made it gold's largest consumer.”
This is just one of the facts mentioned in this brilliant piece of journalism from New York Times. It is one of those articles which make you think about things that you never thought affect you.
Chinese get the blame for making exotic species of animals extinct in their pursuit of aphrodisiac, the Americans get the blame for global warming for consuming too much energy and here we as Indians are doing our part in contributing to a ticking environmental bomb that comes from the ways in which gold is mined.
Read the entire article
here.