[Stoves] Off-topic: Pictures and perceptions - GACC at Imperial Hotel, New Delhi

[Nariphaltan]

This photo reminds me of another incident in one of the African countries in late 1970s when some aid agencies were introducing solar cookers. So in some fancy place on the lush green grounds important people from Europe, America and Africa were gathered. Some of the African women in fancy dress were cooking the food on the solar oven.

All the European and American dignitaries were wearing dark sun glasses. So one of the cooks remarked that more than the solar oven she would rather have the sun glass!

I think the whole program of clean cook stoves will rapidly progress if we all use the same cook stove in our homes that we are promoting. If day after day and year after year we use these stoves in our own homes then the rural poor will also accept them.

If we continue using LPG and electric cooking in our own homes and keep on promoting chulhas for poor then it will remain an interesting concept to be shown on the lawns of Imperial Hotel!

This is Gandhian concept.

Anil K Rajvanshi

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> On 01-Nov-2016, at 2:10 AM, Traveller <miata98 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It is really an neo-imperial enterprise, it seems.  
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> Because images influence perceptions. GACC is in the business of raising money and earning bonuses. The image of three Indian women crouching in front of mostly European Whites says more than the earlier item at the White House. 
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> This is poverty pornography. Just like those images of women cooking in dark, smokey places. While the queens of Chappaqua and Washington, DC seek to rule the cooking world of the poor. 
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> GACC said, "At a private demonstration held at Delhi’s Imperial Hotel, the chefs learned how sustained use of clean cookstoves and fuels can save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and protect the environment."
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> Yeah. The Imperial Hotel is a great example itself - employs a lot of women, and has grown trees around. 
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> If anybody happens to be in New Delhi, I suggest a lunch at the Imperial, probably around $15 plus tip per person, no alcohol. Roam around in the hotel and you will discover interesting historical titbits. 
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