India, Russia and China’s different political cultures? The outbreak of Corona virus in China had brought with it so many questions about how countries run their affairs. In today’s The Hindu (Feb, 17, 2020) there is an elaborate write-up on how the media is tightly controlled in China and how that had led to such…
The credibility of the Indian media is poor!
Monopolies in media ownership would only distort democratic rights of the people!We read that in India there is an incredible 400 number of TV news channels! And there are also fundamental questions like the concentration of ownership in one or two monopoly owners! These monopoly owners are also, as in India right now, happen to…
US President’s visit to India
Any trade deal with USA should secureIndia’s agri goal of food self sufficiency! As big agricultural economies, be it India, China and the USA, we can’t manage world economy without trade. More so the agricultural trade. So, India has to have a trade negotiation with America whose agricultural economy too needs a trade deal. But…
What chance for optimism in agriculture?
In a situation when we find the Indian agriculture in debts and droughts and floods!Why, even you can add litigation and much else! This year’s Christmas double issues of the internationally known magazine, The Economist, has written its major editorial on Optimism vs. Pessimism. The widely read intellectual elite journal has highlighted the radical changes…
What the New Year holds for the world? And for India?
Whom to look for advice and wisdom? The past year has gone. The New Year, 2020, is very much on us. Also, the New Year is once more, full of hopes and lot of trepidations. The US onslaught on Iran has complicated international affairs and has many other issues of urgency, not only on Indian…
Give agriculture sector media support!
Let us build an enlightened agricultural lobby!An effective agricultural lobby needs much media support! Two much bureaucracy weakens farmers-policy makers interaction. What should be done now? Give media support! Agriculture is now in the dark. Not the crops and crop prices. The people who flood this vital economic segment. 50 people who toil in 15…
Why are students on protests and agitations?
Yes, it is a fact of great significance that the students, those who had left schools and joined colleges are easily taken to protests and agitations. It is a question no one asks, we mean educationists and thinkers and anyone who thinks he or she is of some mental caliber, should be themselves capable of…
University education is going off-track
See, what is making news and capturing public attention What purpose does JNU violence and so many agitations serve? It is a very tragic story not yet fully unveiled and the days and months to come would be severely lost and no public good is likely to be served if the antagonists and the protagonists…