Every one knows the exact reasons! No one dares to speak out! We are publishing this magazine, now for more than two decades. And we have built up a dedicated readership. It is not easy to publish an agriculture magazine in English. All the English publications are newspapers or magazines and all are urban-focused. No…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
AK.Chettiar, the man to make the first documentary film on Mahatama Gandhi when Gandhi was very much alive!
Dear Meenakshi Mukeherjee, I read with great your book review in the Economic and Political Weekly for June 2-8 2007 on A.K.Chettiar’s reminiscences of making a documentary on Mahatama Gandhi. In fact, the late A.K.Chettiar was my long time friend and mentor. I knew him for a fairly long time, since my college days in…
Poets and philosophers : Their lives and their troubles!
Poets and philosophers! When you think of them, what thoughts immediately spring to mind? They seem to give much life and light to society.Much of our sense of culture and pure aesthetic pleasures, it m is poets and writers seem to be capable of providing.A society without some intellectual strength cant be a society and…
Conscience vote in Presidential election
Will the call for conscience vote in the upcoming presidential election in India trigger some unpredictable outcome? An internal rebellion in the Congress? The nomination papers of B.S.Shekhawat,the Opposition candidate for the Presidency by Natwar Singh,till the other day a leading light of the Sonia Gandhi’s inner circle points to a new development.Mr.Singh is still…
From a subservient Prime Minister to a subservient President?
Presidential election loses its dignity and gravitas? Is democracy only a numbers game? If so, then, is politics is all about mere political survival for some persons or some families? It looks Sonia Gandhi’s approach to matters of high state, the legacy of the Congress party and its ideals and much else seems to be…
President of India must rise up.
How a high Constitutional office was dragged to a low common denominator! The Presidential contest between Mrs.Pratiba Patil and the incumbent Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has taken some ugly turns.This is most unfortunate. Given the high office of the President under the Indian Constitution,an office that is both ceremonial and symbolic of the hopes and…
The current tragedy of agriculture policy making!
India would turn into a food importer? Yes, says our Agriculture Minister! Our policy makers have become smug about agriculture! They don’t in fact know what to do to turn agriculture as India’s strength. That is the current tragedy of policy making. All our top ministers are able men. They are widely seen as the…
Biltin Toker, my friend
Biltin Toker, my friend Biltin Toker was my friend at Oxford, he was from Istanbul, Turkey. He studied architecture at Oxford and we became close friends. He used to win prizes for his innovative architecture designs and he and his designs used to be flashed at the Oxford towns local paper, Oxford Mail. After we…