Why did I write this book “Environmental Poisons and Illness?

It is my thirst to know more about the modern and emerging India that brought me to Chennai and I stayed alone at first 2006 December to 2007 May here and afterwards for four months from November 2007 to March 2008. Before that for decades my contact to India is Dinamalar, India Today and The Hindu. I talked to many persons, hundreds, even thousands to make a picture of real India. It was interesting and at the same time in most of the points it was also very shocking.

I discussed with many persons and understood the mechanism of life here almost after 40 years. Several good as well several bad things I came to know. The values of my old 1970 India were no more there in many fields. I have seen the aggressive markets where the multinationals do their business. Things which are prohibited even in their mother or father countries are sold here. To my surprise I found several things are very costly here but the services are very poor, particularly in the insurance sector. I could roughly compare the situation what we had in West Germany during 1965 and 1980. The situation was exactly like here now, everybody was busy in making money, nobody bothered about the environment and eating processed food from USA was considered a big fashion. The household and industrial wastes are dumped every where. Many parents had less time for their children. Nobody was prepared to listen us. We warned that the bad effects would only be seen in their children or grandchildren. In the beginning or middle of 1980s the problem started and in some of the areas it is still there. Crores and crores of rupees are spent from the taxpayer’s money to rectify these scandals. This had affected the health of the children and adults also. As a rich country we did more than enough although we have to do more and I am proud of this. What about the multinational companies who produced the poisonous waste; they disposed it illegally in Germany or in other developing countries in all continents. They earned very well, paid less tax because of their countless daughter companies throughout the world, came out well with very little fine for some of their responsible managers in the court of law.

The government, NGOs and the clinical toxicologists started informing the people about the importance of our environment because the party formed by some leftist students, “The Greens Party”, entered slowly in the assemblies and parliament. Their main programme is only to save the nature and environment and wanted to punish all who did or do bad to these including small or big industries. This was a boon to Germany because the other four important parties took nature and environment in their party programmes. If it could have been happened in India also then we could be very happy and this would be the only possibility to change things in the long run. At the same time we must give the persons living here all the necessary information which they need. Give the mothers all the necessary information, she can give further to her children and it goes automatically to the coming generations. The aim of my books is to give people enough useful and practical information and make them socially aware. Then the chances of cheatings and exploiting may become less.

So I have taken four fields where I did lot of research and pioneering work to inform our people about the chances and risks. What we did was not only applied research but also the treatment of several different difficult patients. As the head of the department of clinical toxicology I am the right persons for all the questions of the illegal drugs, prescription drugs, environmental medicine including residue analysis and in occupational medicine. We work with doctors closely to solve the problems in all these fields. We have also worked with many important pharmaceutical companies and other industries. But, in this job, hard but healthy critism is very important and it is also accepted by many.

Most of them know much about the environmental pollutions, poisons and illness but wait for the others do something. The rest has no idea and do the same thing as always. The same procedure as every year is only in their thoughts and deeds. But many live now may experience the after effects of this pollutions and their dangerous and life threatening effects in their life. I wonder how these people live in their homes when they make the public place so dirty. Here the so called educated people are also not better than others. Our culture and tradition are pure, then from where we got the dirty genes so that we make everything dirty. I have given here information about almost all the poisons we may confront in our life and with this knowledge you could react always right.

Here also prevention is better than cure and very healthy and cheap. The parents must learn and then teach their children. This is the only applicable and possible solution.

The environmental poisons are everywhere. Even all the mothers’ milk in this world is contaminated, but breastfeed as long as you can and it is always the healthiest for the baby. More research must be done to know clearly about the dangerous environmental illness.

We all are sitting in the same boat, do something to your environment or die!

Drugs Abuse

There are several severe problems in our world – the biggest one is poverty which we deal separately- that makes this world bad. These are:

• The big business with narcotics
• Women trafficking
• Selling of the weapon in the black market


I don’t want to write anything about politics. The money involved in this dirty business is much higher than the budget of many rich Western countries. This money is everywhere – invested in good companies in the bank, finance, real estate and in all in the business you could imagine. For example, the person who sells the drugs on the street is only a “small fish” and the big bosses may be sitting comfortably everywhere as good citizens.

We can not stop this problem because of the money and influential persons involved. But we could teach our children the danger of these problems. My experience with youngsters and children shows that if they understood the dangers with right information they never touch it. This is our aim; we educate the children and youth to save the family and the society.

In emerging India many have money, lot of money – I am happy – and the problem of drugs abuse starts. Youth want to experience something new and exciting and they could become prey to these evils. So the knowledge about drugs abuse is important to every children, youth and parents in our country.

I have seen tens of thousands of families destroyed because of abuse of alcohol, tablets and narcotic drugs. The parents used to say to me Western countries if our children do not have problems with alcohol or drugs we are the happiest and all the other bad things what they do is harmless. Don’t think that these families are common families. No, the children of doctors, judges, lawyers, priests, big business men etc. are major part who abuse drugs and alcohol and ruin their families. If you ask me why, the answer is very simple. The parents have no time, they have more than enough pocket money, they are lonely and nobody is there to talk. When I started to work in a General Hospital in Hamburg, Germany there was a very beautiful colleague there. After few months I met her and her husband in a social gathering. He was an ugly looking man and drank lot of alcohol. Next day in the laboratory I asked her why she married an ugly man. She smiled at me and told that he was the first person in her life who listened when she talked. Her family was a well to do family but here money could not do anything. The end was somewhat sad, but even today I admire this woman.

In the coming days, months and years I write about this problem. Feel free to ask me. Remember all the chemicals including our medicines are poisons.

The dose makes the poison.

In all these problems prevention is better than cure.