Category: Rural India

The infrastructure of development twisted and turned into crooked selfish one-person agenda Where the development issues cry for attention Just travel around in Tamil Nadu by road. You will notice that the roads are so old, so old world fashioned with all their zigzag returns and twists. You can’t enter and exit any of the…

You have to build another seven new Mumbai’s by the next 12 years! There is a new urgency and a confidence among the ministers of the Prime Minister’s team. Every minister is supposed to announce their favourite targets. The first to come and the first to withdraw   were Veerappa Moily and Kapil Sibal. The gay…

Surely, the aam aadmi government must attend to this problem as the first and foremost priority! If we write angrily, then, readers might imagine we write politics! No, we don’t write politics, we write the truth! Is truth politics or politics can ever become truth?  That is the dilemma! There is now a severe drought…

Rural governance is not more of the same, right? Election results is not just vote banks changing sides. We must see election outcome in some deeper perspective. It is time for some soul searching and introspection. More so when we consider some fundamentals that remain unchanged in the rural environment. A range of reforms, panchayat…

Any meaningful development strategy must start with girl-child Centric programmes. World Bank reports on anti-poverty measures, urbanisation etc There are many new things to learn fro Indians The World Bank’s latest report, titled “Moving out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up “makes interesting reading. For Indians this must not be news but for the…

The coming of supermarket chains Our big corporates talked big but have they gone anywhere? Reliance and Sunil Mittal haven’t gone anywhere, it seems! How these two developments   help farmers? Two latest developments that are likely to impact the farmers, the farming future and the very growth prospects of farmers and the rural development are…

Prof.Amartya Sen and Dr.Manmohan Singh What are their positions on critical issues? Any  thinker like Sen or any one in  government like Dr.Singh can  continue to talk and get away. And yet nothing worthwhile happens as it is today. Because any theory, however brilliant in hair-splitting arguments, between niti and nyaya, as Sen displayed  here…

Also a  desperate course correction of the PM’s one-track approach! There is a clear disconnect with rural India as far as the UPA government is concerned. Yes, there are schemes like rural employment guarantee scheme. So are other schemes focused on the “distribution” of benefits to the rural mass of people? Yes, all the social…