Some people called it âthe cripplerâ. A shot in the dark. Polio is a devastating disease; the preferred method for fighting it is vaccination. Yet there is a mass of historic evidence that suggests it is not caused by a virus but by industrial and agricultural pollution.
RELATIVE LOCATION: India is positioned on the Indian subcontinent in south-central Asia, and is located in both the eastern and northern hemispheres. India bordered by the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Mannar, Indian Ocean, and the countries of Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Burma (Myanmar) .
India, officially the Republic of India (BhÄrat Gaá¹arÄjya), is a country in South Asia.It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world.he name India is derived from Indus, which originates from the Old Persian word HinduÅ¡. The latter term stems from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, which was the historical local appellation for the Indus River. The ancient Greeks referred to the Indians as Indoi (Î¹Î½Î´Î¿Î¯), which translates as the people of the Indus.