Dipankar Chakraborti comes from a small village in West Bengal, India. He is an analytical chemist and epidemiologist. He is now director of the school of environmental sciences at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, West Bengal, and advises globally on the problems of arsenic pollution.
What’s the problem with taking help from the west?
In my experience, when you have million-dollar projects not much trickles down to the villages. Not after the government and local officials and foreign consultants, with their five-star hotels and travel and per-diem expenses, have all taken their share. The Bangladeshi government got a “soft” loan from…
