Why? People don’t want to read anything about agriculture! Such is the current public interest in agriculture! Farmers’ news has come to mean only farmers’ suicides and other distress news only. Why this state of affairs? We wonder! Vadamalai Media is an agriculture media company engaged in its priority goal of highlighting agriculture and rural…
Education can help to create conditions for people to live fulfilling lives!
Education, ethics and money! A fatal combination? Yes, it seems so. The state of Indian education is very depressing. There is a steady quantitative expansion of education at all levels. This is a positive development. While there is a steady decline in quality, again, at all levels too! Quantitative expansion has happened thanks to a…
Political scene in India
There have been two brutal murders of two eminent journalists. One in the South in Bangalore where Ms.Gowri Lankesh, a radical writer of, of course, extreme views, was brutally gunned down outside her home. The other murder, after a few days of this one, was in the far Northern state of Tripura where a TV…
Perceptions of corruption! How to ensure a clean polity?
Election Commission is weak! How to make it an anti-corruption machinery? The image of leaders is critical! There is a widespread perception that India is becoming prone to corruption increasingly. This issue we have to face boldly and talk about it. It is our view that the public at large is not prone to giving…
Media freedoms, the urban and rural media!
Building a brand name for agri media! Political climate critical for media freedoms to thrive. News is not information! Only controversial news is news! In agri sector there is no scope for controversies, except farmer’s suicides! Even that doesn’t make new3s now! So, agri media must get between social and political recognition. See even the…
Tamil Nadu’s politics
Political stability is critical for good governance! That is what is the common ground between the Governor’s strategy and the Edapppadi government. The factions within the ruling AIADMK government in TN and also the other stakeholders, including the people are showing unusual patience in testing the majority of the ruling combine. As it is, the…
What is this OBC politics, suddenly?
Sociological realities of rural India! Please don’t play caste politics! In the name of OBC quotas! These are old hats. The politics of OBC castes. Right now, the Modi government has come out with a much more narrow mindset than what was prevalent in the Mandal report days. Now, castes are dissolving owing to several…
Opposition in Democracy
How the Indian polity is evolving? How the ground-realities are evaded? Yes, there is also a historical cycle to this phenomenon of holding on to power, from ancient Greece to modern day Indian democratic realities! The Greece we visited recently as a family tour, we mean the journey to the ancient classical Greece of the…