Thirty seven countries in the world have seen food riots and social unrest! The urban poor have been hard hit, a new historic experience! All time high prices rice, wheat and dairy products! The price of rice had doubled in one year, the other crops, wheat, soya bean and sugar and dairy products have seen…
Grass roots realities!
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…
What Mahatma Gandhi could’nt do? What Pandit Nehru could’nt achieve?
The painful thoughts of the British empire syndrome The Raj Syndrome by Suhash Chakravarty,Rupa,2007 pp 400. Revisiting 1857 Myth,Memory,History,Rolli Books,2007 Leonard Woolf A Life by Victoria Glendinning London,2006,pp 526 The thoughts here all raise highly emotional and highly controversial thoughts and throw up conflicting images as I look at India as a country and people…
Is the government committed to agriculture sector?
What Mr.Sharad Pawar is doing? Where the PM’s expertise? Do these gentlemen and the hon’ble lady or ladies care for the poor and the rural people? Now, everyone in the government and outside knows that there is a food-prices-driven inflation and there is an element of helplessness and a lot of desparation. Rightly so. So…
Distortion of the Indian polity reaches unacceptable levels!
High Constitutional Authorities devalued! All Constitutional proprieties bypassed! All for whom? In whose interest? Such questions come at once when we see how steadily and unmistakably our great Constitution is being subverted from inside the very system. Prime Minister downsized and almost insulted by his senior colleagues! We have reached a stage in our political…
500 farmers die since 2001 in Kerala agriculture!
Kerla paddy farmers commit suicide! Man-made suicides,thanks to CPI(M) ideology! Introduce private sector into paddy harvesting operations! CPI(M) wing farm labour union prevented paddy harvesting machines deployed for harvesting standing paddy crop in the kuttanad region of Alapuzha region. The region is the hub of paddy farming in the state and this season,the state witnessed…
Fighting inflation, yes!
And then, what to do? Call in a corporate icon like Captain Gopinath to streamline the foodgrains management and rationalise the price of essential commodities! There is a 40-month high inflation at 7 and above per cent. There is a great deal of tension in the government. The Cabinet is divided as to what to…
Deploy IT tools to solve peoples’s problems at the grass roots.
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…