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Paul Krugman’s economic future: cities to grow at the expense of rural hinterland?

Posted on October 30, 2008February 22, 2020 by V.Isvarmurti

So, what future for rural India? Imaginative transition from rural to urban India calls for new talents, imagination, and experience! The Nobel Prize for Economics, this year! This has gone to predict the growth of cities! What does that mean for the future of agriculture and farming as an occupation? This year’s Nobel Prize has…

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Grass roots realities!

Posted on May 9, 2008October 9, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

Jyoti Basu criticises Sonia Gandhi! Will Prakash Karat lad behind? He takes on the Maoist rebels for the woes of West Bengal! Do these persons understand rural India? Rural realities? Zilla Parishads are a must to end the British days-type exploitation and oppression of the people by the government machinery. Change the names of the…

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Deploy IT tools to solve peoples’s problems at the grass roots.

Posted on April 16, 2008October 9, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

Appoint Nandan Nilekani as Prime Minister’s special adviser! Call Dr.Devi Shetty of Narayan Hirudalaya to make telemedicine part of the primary health centres! Revamp the public services in the Indian villages! Revenue depts. are the age-old institutions. Panchayat raj is with us for so many years. Rural health services are   in total decline and utterly…

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Open letter to Kapil Sibal, the science minister

Posted on January 24, 2008October 9, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

Where were your scientists?  When you held the Science Congress? What is the contribution of scientists to agriculture, rural development? Scientists don’t show interest in country’s problems! Scientists don’t contribute to agriculture, biotechnology, seeds and environment and climate change etc? Science Congress President Spoke in the face of the Prime Minister! “Don’t take away precious…

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Prof.Amartya Sen, Prof.Tapan Raychaudhury on rural India

Posted on January 1, 2008February 22, 2020 by V.Isvarmurti

Rural Indian can be saved, for sure! Rural India needs a new focus Institutional changes are called for There is no room for any complacency about rural India. There is much that needs to be done. To reduce the number of people under poverty trap. The National Commission on Enterprises in Unorganised Sector headed by…

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An unstable rural India emerging!

Posted on January 1, 2008 by V.Isvarmurti

Why our villages remain as they are? Why our agriculture neglected? It is Gandhi-Nehru legacies of an idealistic or unrealistic world views? C.K.Prahalad, the management guru had put forward the thesis of “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”. Who the BOP? The poor, right? But then, where does the real rural India come in?…

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Vision and leadership in business only?

Posted on December 13, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

Why not in agriculture and peoples’ growth? This year’s human development index lets down India. India falls two steps downward! From 126 Indian slips to 128 rank! A national shame? We ask the decision makers, the leaders in politics and the corporate world! We read, day in and day out, in the urban press, in…

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Our leaders don’t have any imagination!

Posted on December 13, 2007December 13, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

You dont need a Nobel Prize winner to tell you what to do to abolish poverty and raise living standards! UPA government led by Manmohan Singh might be better than the NDA government led by Vajpayee. But the over all economic development was initiated by the NDA and it is the same road the UPA…

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V. Isvarmurti is a leading public figure from south of India. He is a former member of the then Madras Legislative Council. He had his education at such reputed institutions like Tagore’s Santiniketan and Oxford University. Read More

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