It is possible because our agriculture is modernised by industrial strength and economic growth! Food bill is not election rhetoric? The Central government legislation, Right to Food Security Act is a welcome development as other welfare schemes. In the present context, there are so many state-level welfare schemes, so many, almost covering every aspect of…
Eluding justice to the common citizens?
Lalu Prasad Yadav in jail The pending cases are pending for political reasons? Special courts to try political corruption must function on day- to-day basis! How many courts and how long years wait for trying political, economic offences? We are a democracy and other countries like Russia and China are not so openly democracies. But…
Narendra Modi : will he make it in the 2014 elections?
Rahul Gandhi’s chances any better? The 2014 general elections in India has generated much heat and many expectations. Expectations that this is the first time that the BJP is pitching for a high stake claim by projecting Narendra Modi, the Gujarat Chief Minister for the powerful office of India’s Prime Minister. India is no more…
Will there be villages in the future?
Who can give an answer? There are always either doom stories or boom stories! When it comes to our villages! Indian villages would thrive as ever as anyone can look into the future. Villages have lived in all developed countries. In UK, the glories of the countryside is celebrated. There are any number of legends…
Core sector infrastructure industries report 8 percent growth!
This will do immense good for agri sector! Agriculture and industrial development is closely linked! The current good news about industrial pickup is good for agriculture! Key sectors, eight sectors, coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, steel, cement, electricity rose sharply to eight percent from 3.7 percent, in the first eight months. Agriculture thereby…
USA and UK surveillance of Indian government and citizens!
First, the Britons! Now, the Americans! Indians have to learn to be independent citizens! How to stand up to the brain-washing and other soft power and strong arm tactics? Indians have a long history of brain-washing by the British rulers. From education to scholarship to literature to what Indians believe as an independent nation, we…
China goes overseas, to Ukraine to buy/lease out agriculture land on a vast scale!
Agriculture matters always! In every country and every corner of the world! There are always news and developments that remind us how critical the agriculture and rural economy is for every country and every society. Simply because agriculture is the basic economic foundation on which the rest of the economic and social structure rests. So too the…
India, China and America
Current developments and likely challenges China is fighting corruption at home on an unprecedented scale. India is caught up with piling corruption cases against senior cabinet ministers. One high profile political corruption case, against the Bihar strongman, Lalu Prasad Yadav after fighting against all odds for some 17 long years in now lodged in jail,…