An illusion or a reality?Some style and much pretence!Media in India both print and TV needs much introspection!So many IT tools? Yet, what are their effective use for the farmers and general public? You see Indian agriculture is in distress. So much has been said all through the election campaigns and also in the speeches…
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Agriculture is whose concern?
Every time anyone political person speaks of agriculture, be he the country’s Prime Minister or Rahul Gandhi, as they have been doing now we, the public, why even the hardened farmer enthusiast, tends to believe that the speaker is committed to farmers’ cause. Tragically, no more so. And that too in the aftermath of the…
Create jobs in rural India?
Variety of new services are coming up. Even IT outsourcing companies can create jobs in rural India!Indian agriculture is so fundamental! First of all the Agriculture and Industry Survey Journal wish the best of luck to the new Hon’ble Union Agriculture Minister Sri Narendra Singh Tomar. The current priorities? Unemployment? Creating more jobs? Agriculture needs…
Winning elections is one thing!
Governance issues will prove the real challenge!As we write the political atmosphere is not yet settled down!Cabinet Ministers face multiple challenges!Home, Defence and Health Ministers already face troubles!Euphoria of massive victory won’t last long!After slogans and cheering would come!The test of governance and many internal and external challenges! Yes, the newly elected Modi government is…
Liberal India in retreat?
BJP victory is not a historical trend!See history, political evolution and much else! Readers of this column must be aware that the writer is not a professional journalist or an academic person. Rather we come from a rural, land-owning family and also educated at Santiniketan and Oxford, UK and also a former member of the…
Bold initiatives are called for in Indian agriculture.
Old institutions should go! New collaborations must come in.Elections over and we can sit easy on the farm front? Agriculture is never a high priority in India given the sort of priority politicians and media give to this topic. Neither the public are too much bothered about what is happening in agriculture inside India and…
Education under the Modi regime
What are the progresses and achievements? The years 2014 to 2019 have been a radical time when the BJP party swept through the Indian political landscape as a tsunami and changed everything in the sense that for the first time since Independence an entirely new political party other than the Congress won elections and got…
Changing face of Indian Education
Mounting threat of money in education business! Private sector enters with a vengeance. Who doesn’t know that the Indian education sector is undergoing a radical transformation, for good or bad? From the very start from LKG to primary and secondary education, why, even afterwards and perhaps with much more vengeance the entry into any collegiate…