• ISBN13: 9789380222400
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: GenNext Publication
• Publisher Imprint: GenNext Publication
• Publication Date: January 1, 2015
• Pages: 306
• Original Price: INR 450.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 507 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

The book, a venture on investigative journalism, questions the version created by the media and the Environmental NGOs that the aerial spraying of endosulfan had caused widespread diseases and deaths in Kasargod in North Malabar. All the pre existing diseases in the area were described as Endosulfan diseases by antipesticide activists. Though it was described as an event next only to the Bhopal gas tragedy, the controversy was the fallout of a global conspiracy hatched by the European Union to sell its patented pesticides. The whole episode boils down to competition among pesticide manufacturers of the EU to create its hegemony in the global market. The conferences on Multilateral Environmental Agreements were manipulated by the European Union. Endosulfan was phased out at the Conference of Parties at the Stockholm convention in 2011 by flouting the rules of the convention.

Kalathil Ramakrishnan, a Kerala based independent journalist, joined the Indian Express as its staff correspondent at Kannur bureau in 1989 after resigning his job with a Government owned financial company. He had worked as the district correspondent and bureau chief of the New Indian Express in Kasargod district from 2001 to 2012. He covered the endosulfan controversy which was widely reported in the media in the country and abroad. Some of his reports had been adopted by prestigious media publications in the country. Many of his stories appeared in the Indian Express in all its editions across the country