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…
Venkiah Naidu on misuse of press freedoms!
Media freedoms must be responsible freedoms! We welcome the senior minister in Modi government for speaking out on certain sensitive issues like press freedoms. Our democracy today faces many challenges and distortions. Sometimes, it is small media that behaves responsibility. Big houses are driven by profit and so many distortions set in. Press freedoms must…
India’s external and internal problems
The image and realities of holding and exercising power As we write, it is the Indian Prime Minister’s 66th birthday! We join the millions of Indians to greet the Prime Minister for a happy return. The Prime Minister’s office under the Indian Constitution is a heavily-placed job. And in that sense Mr.Narendra Modi has a…
The autobiography of John Ruskin
How Britain didn’t understand Indian culture? Just by chance I looked at a weekly supplement of my favorite newspaper. It is all on Arts & Culture and carries two interview pages of leading cultural personages, classical dancers, musicians and theatre personalities. All of them engaged my thought for a while. All my favorites are here…
Some thoughts on…..
What future for specialised media? Development media, agri and rural media space? The famed Mumbai-based Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) completes 50 years, in fact, it was started earlier by the founder, the legendary Sachin Choudhury, in 1949,this August. We have a lot of association, long memories and many of our older associates and friends…