The early monsoon failure has cast dark clouds over India’s economic revival in the face of the global recession. Poor monsoon can hurt the economic growth, pushing up food prices and propelling government to spend more on farmer support. It is likely to hurt the GDP by at least 1 to 1.5%. Growth estimates have already been scaled down to 5% from the earlier levels of 9%. War over water is not a new phenomenon in this world. The world has seen many fatal battles fought for the occupation of water resources. Ancient history reveals that the armies fought until the water resources were occupied… Nothing prepared me for the final genocide site I visited on Wednesday. Initially I resisted visiting the church at Nyamata. I had read a description of what took place there. My fears that the place would haunt me were true. Guilt causes a lot of us to do stupid things. We either give foolishly to the homeless with good intentions of helping, or we try to avoid the person in need altogether so that we don’t have to face our own consciences. It’s either that or we meet the guilt somewhere in the middle and talk to the person, but lie about the fact that we don’t have any money. In doing so, we actually do more damage than good in most cases. What people don’t realize is that the best thing you can do for someone in need is to treat him like a real person. 
