New private-public partnership initiatives could make a fundamental impact. It is nice to see V.P.Singh and Ajit Singh leading a farmers’ agitation in New Delhi. But are these leaders’ efforts worth the trouble? Yes, we need a farmers’s lobby to agitate and bring farmers’ issues always to the attention of the government of the day….
Author: V.Isvarmurti
States getting marginalized by Delhi?
Arbitrary party management! Unaccountable government? Issues for economic and social development. The recent Rajya Sabha nominations by the Congress party and also by parties like the JDS and the BJP factions in Karnataka and other such nominations from other states show clearly there is a shift from national consensus on such matters.
Amartya Sen again!-Argumentative Indians? Or, submissive Indians?
Sen’s new book seems to raise some questions about which there can be diverse arguments. Sen doesn’t tell the whole truth. Much of the misrepresentation and distortion of Indian diversity and Indian character had been done by the Britons. These distortions we Indians had come to believe, more so the Western-educated Indians themselves. I…
India produces so many billionaires and millionaires!
IIM students get sky-high salaries! So, India now a Superpower? It seems it is time for celebrations for India! This year, the American Forbes magazine that tracks billionaires all over the world revealed for the first time that next to America India has produced so many billionaires! Not even China is near India in this…
Will the Central Government take note of the minimum programme for agriculture modernisation?
Is the government in the listening mode? Or, is it seized of its own superiority of knowledge in this most critical sector? Farming scenario is changing for the good. Yet, the farm sector needs a serious look from the farmer’s points of view. Government should regulate banks and finance institutions to give funds to…
India-US Agriculture Pact
Why keep the public in the dark? Indian agriculture is at a critical stage. After years of self-reliance and self-sufficiency as ensured by the Green Revolution, we seem to be reversing some of the national consensus. The so-called second Green Revolution of which the PM and his colleagues seem to be imagining without fully working…
India’s nuclear deal
Many unanswered questions India is an open country and there is much vitality in the system to express fearless opinion. Only this fearlessness might perhaps give India its fuller strength in times of challenge and might compensate for what deficiencies we find in the present governance. There is an air of complacency and self-congratulation in…
Joys of living in the villages
The rural “pastoral idyll, a dream fantasy” farming is, yes a bloody profession today but it can regain its old value system and might become or turned to be a perennial source of inspiration. Every morning the first thing we do in Bangalore is to call the village, some 300 km away, and talk to…