Rural Indian can be saved, for sure! Rural India needs a new focus Institutional changes are called for There is no room for any complacency about rural India. There is much that needs to be done. To reduce the number of people under poverty trap. The National Commission on Enterprises in Unorganised Sector headed by…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
How to draw people and resources to agriculture?
World economic slow-down affects Indian growth Food prices on the rise world over and so our food self-sufficiency goal at risk Climate changes can impact India’s agriculture prospects and we need a new agriculture strategy These are now the world scenario as far as India’s agriculture prospects are concerned. Yes, as for the economic growth…
How is our economy evolving?
Are we creating a just society? Or an unjust one? Are we a liberal democracy? A liberal society? Isn’t the Prime Minister confused about subsidies? Indian economy may be growing fast. But it is still an unjust and an iniquitous economy and society that we are pursuing in India. There are faulty economic policies, especially…
An unstable rural India emerging!
Why our villages remain as they are? Why our agriculture neglected? It is Gandhi-Nehru legacies of an idealistic or unrealistic world views? C.K.Prahalad, the management guru had put forward the thesis of “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”. Who the BOP? The poor, right? But then, where does the real rural India come in?…
Sonia Gandhi’s predicament
She has to set her house in order first! Sonia Gandhi was served with a notice from the Election Commission for her use of language”, merchants of death”(maut ke saudagar) in the Gujarat election campaign. Mr.Narendra Modi’s retaliation justifying the “police encounter deaths” as a response to Sonia Gandhi’s this remark also received the EC’s…
An Open Letter to L.K.Advani
Define your vision for India! L.K.Advani, 80, is now named by the BJP as the next Prime Minister, if the party wins the next elections. That’s fine. In a democracy, after all, we must have an Opposition party, a strong enough and a united Opposition that is part of any vibrant democracy. Our polity is…
India’s biofuel policy shouldn’t punish farmers!
As sugarcane farmers punished by sugar factories and the governments! Biodiesel policy won’t work if it threatens food security! PM on his South African tour was publicised as talking of biofuels at the Brazil, S.Africa and India summit. But this is just public rations exercise only. Ethnol, biodiesel and green diesel! Do you know the…
President Pratibha Patil’s first home visit
Proceeded by farmer’s suicide in Amravati! After PM’s Vidarbha package what hopes for farmers even if elections come? President’s prodding’s must help and the public would be interested to know the results! Surely, our economic reforms haven’t worked in favour of the farmers, the disadvantaged who live outside the cities. At least in the cities…