Environment, energy, infrastructure issues might impact Indian agriculture’s long -term prospects India continues with its short-term strategies. It resorts to import of wheat for the second year. And at such high prices. The Prime Minister, after a long interval, is undertaking a tour of six states to over-see the agriculture developments. Fine! If only the…
Mark Tully & Co
When British authors write of India Indians have to take it with a pinch of salt! India’s unending Journey by Mark Tully,2007,pp 278 Rider,London This is a book by the famous BBC Chief of Bureau for some 22 years and an much-admired writer and presenter of programmes…
Presidential race : Third Front must not abstain from voting!
The ADMK chief and one of the Third Front leaders,Ms Jayalalitha has come out with the view that the Third Front,consisting of eight parties, would abstain from voting in the Presidential election.This is an absurd political stand! After having constituted the Front in a hastily called meeting in Hyderabad and also in Chennai and after…
Challenges and opportunities in Indian agriculture!
What new hopes on agriculture front? Three priorities in agriculture Water, energy, biotechnology Inter-linking of the Southern rivers, high investments in agri-biotechnology, energy efficient management in electricity and water consumption in agriculture. The National Development Council met with the one single aim of what to do in the Indian agriculture. We have becoming accustomed to…
Why agriculture is caught in a crisis?
Every one knows the exact reasons! No one dares to speak out! We are publishing this magazine, now for more than two decades. And we have built up a dedicated readership. It is not easy to publish an agriculture magazine in English. All the English publications are newspapers or magazines and all are urban-focused. No…
AK.Chettiar, the man to make the first documentary film on Mahatama Gandhi when Gandhi was very much alive!
Dear Meenakshi Mukeherjee, I read with great your book review in the Economic and Political Weekly for June 2-8 2007 on A.K.Chettiar’s reminiscences of making a documentary on Mahatama Gandhi. In fact, the late A.K.Chettiar was my long time friend and mentor. I knew him for a fairly long time, since my college days in…
Poets and philosophers : Their lives and their troubles!
Poets and philosophers! When you think of them, what thoughts immediately spring to mind? They seem to give much life and light to society.Much of our sense of culture and pure aesthetic pleasures, it m is poets and writers seem to be capable of providing.A society without some intellectual strength cant be a society and…
Conscience vote in Presidential election
Will the call for conscience vote in the upcoming presidential election in India trigger some unpredictable outcome? An internal rebellion in the Congress? The nomination papers of B.S.Shekhawat,the Opposition candidate for the Presidency by Natwar Singh,till the other day a leading light of the Sonia Gandhi’s inner circle points to a new development.Mr.Singh is still…