Amidst all the seriousness of carbon trading, CO2 emissions, global warming, The Kyoto Protocol and the efforts of scores of environmentalists world over, the nonchalant common man in India still burns his share of dry leaves and other "easily bio degradable" wastes, daily.

Today, I extinguished one such burning pile; mainly due to the nuisance from the smoke. It should still count.

To end on a funny note :-