Prospects for rice exports seem good! This year’s untimely rains have however helped, farmers in the rice belts of North, in states like Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh say, that that paddy output this year might be higher than the official estimates. Rice, we must know is an export commodity these times and hence what is happening…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Job creation, the major worry for the Indian policy makers
Niti Aayog drawing up agri reforms! Agri sector is long neglected in fundamental policy thinking and hence there is no policy reforms for long. Now, we learn that Niti Aayog, the old Planning Commission-type policy making body set up by the new government seems to be really serious bout agri reforms. The external factors for…
What is happening in Odisha state?
Rotten in the state of Denmark? Horror stories! That is how one is tempted to ask when we read the continuous stories of human depravity, total loss of a sense of belonging and whether people there care to worry about their what is seemingly their daily on-going increased neglect of the people by the government…
Corporates in agriculture and MNCs in the rural market!
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…