Create an agricultural innovation subsidy fund We need innovative ideas and projects in agriculture and agribusiness development projects It is a fact that Indian agriculture has become stagnant. Statistics have been bandied about by now by the Prime Minister, the Dy. Planning Commission boss and also by Sharad Pawar. There are simply no new innovative…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
So, in New Delhi, no top bureaucrats retire!
They get new fancy jobs at four times their old salaries! Yes, this is one of the best kept secrets in New Delhi corridors of power! Once you get a government job, you become a new person or become a slave for your life? It all depends on how you look at life. As for…
AP Govt. opens WTO cell in agri dept
WTO is here to stay! India and farmers have to learn to make a success of WTO! WTO is a necessary good for the world agriculture. Without our agriculture or for that matter any country’s agriculture goods and services entering into the world trade the concerned agriculture goods and services won’t get the maximum prices….
Supreme Court judgment on Bihar Assembly dissolution
Critical political judgments await decisions Dr.Manmohan Singh was my Oxford contemporary. He was a research student and I was the undergraduate. Those who know the Oxford academic traditions know the distinction. Dr.Jagadish Bhagawathy was also a contemporary. Prof.Amartya Sen was at Trinity, Cambridge and in fact I knew Sen more intimately as my Santiniketan acquaintance….
Should we teach patriotism?
Rich schools, or schools, urban schools, rural schools Schools exist in isolation and what binds the Indian schools? What minmum programme for Indian schools? Regional and language chauvinism had destroyed an Indian identity in the youth .We need some loud thinking, identify the regional politicians who divided the Indian mind and injected the new divsions…
Poet Vallathol : M.K.K. Nayar
Thakazhi Shivasankara Pillai — Three visionaries I don’t know how the rest of India think of Kerala, the narrow strip of land at the West coast of South India and where some of India’s greatest minds had come from. Adi Shankara and Narayana Guru are the two most revered names. As for the rest of…
Time to review land reform laws
What is the impact on land reforms? Should the government take over agricultural land for industry promotion? In Karnataka now there is a raging controversy over the State government’s allotment of about nearly 1,000 acres of prime agricultural lands on the outskirts of Bangalore for the IT major, Infosys. Mr.Deve Gowda, the former Prime Minister,…
Fabian Socialism
What I learned from Harold Laski? He shaped my political beliefs in my younger days My another favourite writer and thinker was Harold J.Laski (1893-1949). I must have read and re-read almost all his volumes at one time. Now, as I read his biography (Harold Laski: Isaac Kramnick and Barry Sheerman, 1993), I felt inspired…