They dont, why not? 75 FIRs registered against UP sugar mill owners! 19 FIRs registered against mills for procuring cane from farmers illegally! These are all big news and big developments in the current messy sugar business scenario. These UP mills are all very big ones, unlike in the South where the mills are very…
A weak Prime Minister, a weak Foreign Minister
A retired foreign secretary, an over-ambitious Home Minister Foreign Security and internal security Are things clear in New Delhi? There seems to be some disarray in the Central government functioning. Already Sharad Pawar, the agri minister has been adding fuel to the rising food prices. After sugar prices, the food minister has indicated that milk…
An open letter to Sonia Gandhi
The Congress President should visit the State Congress Headquarters whenever she visits Tamil Nadu. We wrote to Mrs.Sonia Gandhi a few days ago a letter in this regard. We are glad she has obviously seen to have responded. She visited Satyamurthy Bhavan on 13 March 2008. First time a Congress President has done this! Bangalore…
We welcome US co-operation in modernisation of Indian agri sector!
Why does one go for a secret new agribusiness pact with the USA? Why the secrecy, why this below radar deal? A five column news report appears in the national daily on such captioned title. The government only last week, that is, just a week before the presentation of the budget “quietly secured a Cabinet…
PMO bereft of work or lack of focus?
There are an exodus faces and talents from the PMO! What is really happening? Where will this cowardly new situation take us? The PMO is an exalted office where the country’s “chief executive” operates. The Prime Minister in a Parliamentary Democracy occupies a very unique and aura-driven position. Whatever little or not so little event…
Manmohan Singh : Nominated PM in Parliamentary Democracy
A cowardly world we are creating? The new dictators might be terrorists or the nuclear adventurers? Time to look at our democratic pretensions very critically! The world thought that after 1989,the world would turn on to a new civilization. The “end of history” and the dawn of a liberal democracy, the world believed with confidence….
Agriculture is not all about crops!
It is also about people, issues and new strategies! Yes, the very country’s varied demands are all part of the total growth, not just agriculture or industry. The latest interest in climate change is one such latest development. Climate change control concerns everybody and farmers and farming sector needs much sensitisation and sensitivity. Natural forces…
Republic Day Speeches
Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh call for best and brightest people to politics What is really happening today? Who should make the first moves, so to say? Our Republic is not reflecting the socio-economic visions yet. Crisis of faith and legitimacy Governance is not just a mediating role of the rule of law Governance is…