Quote: Incidentally, the chief minister of Kerala had earlier led an agitation against the Coke and Pepsi factories claiming that their use of water was lowering the water tables in the region leading to shortages, a claim thrown out by courts and denied even by the local panchayats. Unquote:
A claim thrown out by courts and even by local panchayats? What a glaring lie, this.
Secondly, the author tries to compare two issues (Appolo hospital in Srilanka and Coke/Pepsi in India) which are entirely different from each other in all sense.
Thirdly, too many people are getting away, like the author does, with the shallow notion that because ground water or Municipal water contains pesticides we should let Coke/Pepsi to do the same. I will accept this logic on the day when Coke/Pepsi sell their 'products' free or at 2 paise per litre (the cost at which we are supplied municipal water!).
forthly, the author should know that in US itself Coke/Pepsi are banned in many places (e.g. educational institutions). Recent news indicate Britain too is following suite.
Fifthly, the bogey of FDI flight etc. has been used too often, that it has become a joke.
