I saw a documentary on water poisoning by chromium on thanthi.tv (Tamil tv) from leather factories and some chromium dumping growing in to a lethal hill, already taking a heavy toll on the people of VELLORE who are dying of cancer, respiratory problems, asthma, acute fever, skin allergy, lever and other problems ending up in early deaths at the age of twenty, thirty..! Some careless industrialists are just letting their  chromium waste percolate in to the ground water and killing people as a "smooth operator"
Here is an interesting essay by DEVINDER SINGH , summarising the two main problems on which I often draw public attention through my own writings , that is rural exodus and declining agriculture production resulting in food deficit that will increase India's import from the West pushing India to beg and will make India's food security depend on some western power's whims and fancies. Conclusion : we are going to opt for ship-to-mouth survival as you so aptly term.