India needs a refreshing change! Infant mortality rate highest in India? What about school years? The rise in corruption scandals? Now, the claims of the PM and FM about rise in growth rate in three years! And the tired rhetoric of inclusive growth! UN Human Development report 2013 Yes, India has done well but not…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Prof. Norman Uphoff of Cornell University says in India in Bihar there is a lesson for future of rice cultivation!
Who makes agri policy in India? Why agri universities are not contributing to agriculture policy making? Yes, a humble farmer from Nalanda is reported to have cultivated an average rice yield of 22.4 tonne per hectare and that had driven the entire agri science community into a tizzy! There is the comparative rice yield map…
Is what Sonia Gandhi doing right?
Why appoint policemen, army men and officials as Governors? What about the democratic political culture? I was just reading the latest issue of the famed TLS (March-8-2013), The Times Literary Supplement, posted every week directly from London! This has had been my favourite reading material for long, almost the past more than half a century!…
“Keep reforming, reforming!”
OECD, Deputy Director General in India! The Agra-held India Partnership Summit Big shots from the WTO and OECD and Korea! What they said about India and our performance? As a nation, as a people and our government, bureaucray and corruption! Yes, they all noted our high corruption-tainted government and governance! Also, more importantly, our bureaucracy…
Migration of workers and professionals!
Globalisation’s many positive gains! Migration has changed Indian employment pattern? Why, the migration scene has impacted the Indian society, the middle classes in many perceptible and imperceptible say. There has this aspect of Indian economic development that has not received much attention. The migration of students and professionals from the developing countries to the developed…
“Let there be bread!”
India progressively on the sidelines? Does India matter in the international arena? Who care for our diplomats and bureaucrats? Whenever we go abroad it used to be considered only courteous to call on the Indian diplomats at our embassies. So too at the other international foras, like UN agencies. In Geneva it used to be…
Challenges before Indian democracy!
India, China and other democracies compared! A critical public opinion and a public awareness are called for. A few days out of the country and in Europe, more so in Italy, a country plagued by economic crisis and political instability, was a new experience and gave new perspectives. Seen from the old imperial Roman Empire…
The public mood is anything but good!
Anything but positive! There is much cynicism and also much anger to give a jolt to sweet dreams! Will it be Rahul Gandhi or Rajnath Singh? The new BJP President has tough task ahead! Rajnath Singh’s “farmer face”! BJP has a new president and says Rajnath’s farmer friendly politics may help the party! What does…