Matter of Fact, May 20, 2022

Gulf News wrongly reported/published the following:

The word “soil” was misspelled as “spoil” in the sentence: “He explained: ‘When you add organic content to sand it becomes soil, but if you remove organic content from soil, it becomes sand. What the UAE is doing is adding organic content to spoil – converting the desert into arable land.’” It was part of the ‘Thousands attend Sadhguru’s talk on Save Soil movement’ report on page 5, Nation section, published on May 20. It should have read as: “He explained: ‘When you add organic content to sand it becomes soil, but if you remove organic content from soil, it becomes sand. What the UAE is doing is adding organic content to soil – converting the desert into arable land.’”

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