They complete a story! Modi’s two years in office needs some balanced comments. Such comments are missing in the Indian media, both pint and the electronic media. The media, we should call it now more realistically, the Indian media industry is also at the cross roads. First, there is the olden day freedom is missing…
Why farmers are deployed for the various Assembly elections?
Not exactly, they are brought forward to the fierce Assembly elections, their names are invoked! The majority of rural voters are farmers and so the invocation! Who says farmers are neglected? It seems only some marginal groups? Mainstream now is all the farmers. Who are talking much about farmers, you know? Yes, none other than…
Media: the Old vs. the New!
Public Perception vs. Public Opinion! What all these have to do with us, India and the Indian public opinion? You see, there are certain developments, short and long term that we don’t perceive in our day to day preoccupations! A day’s news by whatever means we read, through the twitter or other social media outlets,…
Digital Revolution and digital divide!
Who are the visionaries and leaders? Who can guide the country towards a more equal and equitable digital world? The benefits of the IT revolution and this need a better and sustained articulation so that the common man would understand and benefit by such a revolutionary era in which we are living and passing through….
The Hon’ble Venkiah Naidu!
The new minister for Information and Broadcasting! Has called for development-oriented, responsible, media! Fine. But then the new minister is an experienced leader and he must be only too well aware how the Indian media sector is performing today. It is all about surviving and performing for survival only. There is a sense of let-down…
Anti-farmer stir in Punjab?
Punjab farmers plan State-wide protest Punjab is no more the proverbial Green Belt. Green Revolution was once identified with what the Punjab farmers achieved. It was fairy tale like-story. It was also many years ago. Today the State faces very different types of problems. There is much we hear about the Shiro Akali Dl-BJP government…
Agriculture’s seemingly never-ending problems!
Where are the optimistic policy makers? India’s finance minister Mr.Arun Jaitley has just now observed in Hyderabad that agriculture has failed to give subsistence to farmers, who constitute 55 per cent of the population. But the sector contributes only 16 per cent to the Gross Domestic Product. We can’t afford to have this situation. This…
The government must now!
The onion glut and the government inaction a big worry for farmers! Lasalgaon, 45 km from Nasik is, as everyone knows, India’s largest onion market and everyday hundreds of Lorries proceed towards the market complex there. There ensues bidding for price fixation. The story is old and told many times and everyone also knows how…