May be the market forces would decide the new agri policy! There is a mistaken view, shared by many sections, the government, the NGOs and the industry that Indian agriculture would somehow become like the US model. It won’t and it shouldn’t. This has to be understood. There are so many reasons to worry about…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
India and the world economy
Emerging India faces challenges and opportunities too! Indian economists have all become stereotypes! Timid, withdrawing, self-effacing, till yesterday all leftists and Marxists. Today all liberals and economic reformers! Understanding economic issues calls for knowledge of our economic history, certain analytical skills and a bold articulation of certain vision! Manmohan Singh’s government, after the mid-term in…
Migrant Bihari labour in Assam!
Ethnic issues and uncertainity of the future. That Indian development is uneven, is recognised but no one speaks out. That is the tragedy of our leadership. The Congress party was in power for long and it is the party that brought about centrally-sponsored development planning and yet in its long years of power, it has…
More tensions, violence and challenges in the rural India.
Ethnic social issues and a feeling of uncertainty of the future. Migrant Bihari labour in Assam. And this senseless tragedy! That Indian development is uneven is recognised but no one speaks out. That is the tragedy of our leadership, the experts committees and the lack of the courage for outspokenness by the party activists…
CPM’s dilemma in West Bengal!
Its past sins visit its present predicaments? The Stalinist cult of “collectivised” agriculture, call it by what name you like, that had entrenched the idlers in the vilages, panchayats and land holding patterns! Who said agriculture is not important? But the CPM in W.Bengal always touted its land reforms as the end of all socio-economic…
Pull up the PSU banks priorities!
Govt. must ban PSU bank ads with the PM/FM letters and photos! Farm debt write-offs should be followed by sustained farm credit systems. A PSU bank celebrating 100 years or some such events using the PM/FM letters and photos on full pages in all national dailies must have costed the bank several lakhs of rupees!…
The much-talked about Cabinet reshuffle
Much ado about nothing? Unchanging ground level realities! Economic growth is not just a rate of growth of some dry statistics. Not what P.Chidambaram or Ahluwalia or even by the PM’s own exposition itself! Economic growth is peoples’ growth; that is what the nation-builders told us. Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh seems to have become more…
Going about the development debate!
Is Rural India losing out? Urbanisation, creation of new suburban cities, future of the villages! Readers of this column must have had the feeling that we are dumping down our own individual views on what constitutes the genuine rural development vision. We don’t have any ideological individual view or vision as such. Rather our view…