Yes, e-market, e-NAM, the Internet-based National Agricultural market connecting 21 mandis from 8 states was launched by Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi on April 14. This is a most revolutionary step. A giant step, historically too. After almost of millennium of darkness, the Indian agriculture sees a great leap. The Internet tech that has transformed the…
Nitish Kumar’s political pedigree must help!
Nitish Kumar’s call for a new unity of Opposition parties! To take on the BJP, RSS challenges to the Indian polity! Now, Mr.Lalu Prasad Yadav, the chief of Rashtriya Janata Dal, has come out openly supporting Mr.Nitish Kumar, the incumbent Chief Minister as the next Prime Minister in 2019, the Opposition Parties, across the political…
Pope Francis takes Syrian refugees to Vatican! A heart-rending scene!
Apple iPad has brought the whole outside world into our living room! And that is the great luck of the time we live through, it seems. A little small Syrian girl falls at the feet of the great Christian father and cries, rather loudly that viewers like us are deeply moved and in fact many…
Music and Education!
Arts, culture, music and cinema Culture is a complex word and concept. Modern culture basically means Western European culture Modern culture as it evolved in the late 18th and early 19th century, industrialized England. What the thinkers, writers, poets and critics led by Mathew Arnold is what I take here as examples. Arnold’s three classes,…
Agriculture agitates the policy makers!
Agriculture’s political priority now the focus! See the budgets of the government! The Centre has taken the bold step to come out with a budget that makes bold promises. Agriculture spending will top the sectoral allocations. What was once considered to be an urban party of traders and small businessmen and shop-keepers, the BJP now…
Bank defaulters! That is wilful defaulters!
May the tribe grow? Or, when you will act and do justice? Mr.Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister, might not have imagined in the wildest of his dreams that a set of intractable problems, corruption, black money and also unpaid huge bank loans by the high and mighty, besides his unfulfilled promises of getting the black…
Farmers gather at Jantar Mantar!
They would start roaring more in the coming days! To protest on their grievances. All budgets focused on farmers! The Central and the states’ budgets! Why? Is it because the government care for farmers? How many farmers committed suicides, you know? No budget, Central or the states, in particular, the Maharashtra and the Karnataka budgets talk…
Nationalism debate
There is a past history! The current controversy on what is nationalism and patriotism is taking communal overtones. There is a history to the rise of nationalism in the modern world. The First World War (1914-1919) sharpened nationalism with the fall of Ottoman Empire and the birth of new nations. The second war, again, led…