But doesn’t talk of agriculture and its problems? Agriculture, rural issues are assuming critical crisis levels. Further agriculture productivity farmers require lots of incentives including farming viability. So too panchayat raj reforms. Prof.Amartaya Sen can contribute a lot if he lends his moral prestige to such reforms, new ideas and polices. Prof.Amartya Sen is a…
Critical information in agriculture is not accessible Media freedom in India?
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…
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…
This year’s liberal exam results
Welcome to an easy season for school education After a long time there was this easy season for the school education. The secondary education lately has become a mad house for all sorts of ills and inequities and a sense of suppression and oppression for the parent community. There is a mad rush for admissions…
Education is not all about political agenda!
The new government’s education is about what?Is it about making India an educated and civilised country and society? Or, is it all about political brain-washing? You see, one has to have a critical mind, an objective mind to talk about serious issue like education and related fields. Education is all about awakening people, a country…