In USA, EU there is an ethanol boom! India yet to have a clear policy! There is now an European ethonal boom, in the USA there are pro-active farmers involvement in setting up biodiesel plants .Germany, is the leader, France, Spain (the firm name is Abengoa) and many countries are in active production. EU’s first…
Our agri exports strategy is not working
Marine products/cashew and other major commodities are not finding big export markets. We must have the big picture first! Yes, our Commerce Minister Mr.Kamal Nath is doing a brave job. He had brought some openness to our WTO negotiations. Now and then we hear him talk boldly. But that is all. On the ground level…
Crisis hits in higher education!
Rights of the students to get higher education of their choice Anybody has a clue? Anybody has a vision? Yes for question one! No for the next two questions! There is a breakdown of government machinery in Karnatakaand TN. Maharashtra is no better. Medical college seats are now openly bought and sold. There is a…
“Let the poor eat the cake”syndrome prevails in New Delhi?
Governance norms vs political survival Too many compromises with the legitimate political and governance norms have slowed down much of the effective delivery of social benefits to the farmers and the poor. This political commentary, readers might know, is posted on the weblog and so what I write mostly ,more so on the international issues…
National Curriculum 2005
Raises very disturbing questions! 300 academics and seven long months. And now we have a New Curriculum Framework of 125 pages dense text! Globalisation had accelerated the process of Westernisation, modernisation and also make us to face the knowledge acquisition an international type of using reason and science and the tools of knowledge like logic…
Reminiscences : C.N. Annadurai, Sir. A. Lakshmanaswamy Mudaliar
I had seen and heard the late leader “Anna” (C.N. Annadurai) as a student when I was at Pachapayya’s College during the 1953-55 period. Anna himself was an old student and as such there was much affinity between his old college and the same college students. The first time I came to know the name…
Mughal Era : Indian villages and agriculture
What was like the Indian agriculture, the Indian villages in the Mughal times? Poverty, famines, oppression, peasant rebellions….. Here is just a few facts from a noted historian. Sometimes it helps to look at our rural Indian countryside in a historic past. How did our village ancestors live and prosper? For a change we looked…
The evolving political scenario
Prime Minister’s musings give no clue to his real beliefs! The benefit of doubt to the PM or to the people? The passing away of Nani Palkhivala (1920-2002), the eminent Constitutional expert, marks an era in Indian politics and society. The many laudatory articles in the press by peers and others only reinforced the importance…