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| Views of domain experts and renowned commentators on diverse issues. |
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When villages fought over surplus water
By Dinesh Kumar Mishra | 25 Oct 2011
The common understanding is that all water related conflicts arise because of its scarcity. But there have been instances in Bihar, when myopic engineering measures led to violent struggles among flood affected people. |
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One percent v/s 99 percent
By Devinder Sharma | 21 Oct 2011
"Occupy Wall Street" is an expression of resentment against public policies that treat democracies as private club run by rich, for the rich. In many ways, anti-Wall Street movement is like Mahatma Gandhi’s salt satayagrah. |
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Farmers deserve higher food prices
By Pandurang Hegde | 15 Oct 2011
As agrarian crisis continues to turn bad to worse, policies to suppress food-prices will not help the poor farmers growing foodgrains. How long farmers can sacrifice and subsidise rest of the population? |
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Include agriculture under MNREGA
By Devinder Sharma | 12 Oct 2011
Started as an effective tool to help rural poor to gainful employment in the villages, the rural job guarantee act has begun to adversely affect agriculture and food production. It is high time to bring convergence between farming and MNREGA to ensure livelihood security. |
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Saving Punjab farmer
By Devinder Sharma | 04 Oct 2011
To overcome the adverse long term impacts of intensive farming, Punjab needs to make its agriculture more sustainable and farmer centric. |
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The business of knowledge
By Sudhirendar Sharma | 26 Sep 2011
In the race to keep pace with the educational imperatives of growing population can quality of education be allowed to be compromised? Prakash Jha's film Aarakshan takes a compelling dig against privatisation in education. |
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Teary tale of onion trade
By Devinder Sharma | 21 Sep 2011
The recent ban on onion exports resulted in an aggressive lobbying to revoke the ban as demanded by the wholesale traders. The way Chief Ministers and cabinet ministers joined hands against the export ban, it is obvious that onions have become important political tool. |
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Greed eyeing green
By Sudhirendar Sharma | 16 Sep 2011
Is green capitalism a distraction from the real issues that the world needs to address to realize sustainable development? |
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Distressed farmers declare crop-holiday
By Devinder Sharma | 15 Sep 2011
To revive agriculture and to make farmers debt-free, government must bring in a Farmers Income Guarantee Act to determine the monthly income package a farm family must receive. |
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Maize Matters
By Pandurang Hegde | 09 Sep 2011
Backed by government support, maize cultivation has spread to a large area of India to cater to increased demand from the industry. The shift towards maize will not only upset the delicate nutritional balance in dry regions but it will also pave way for agri-corps to push GM maize into India. |
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Corruption behind farm-crisis
By Devinder Sharma | 07 Sep 2011
Corruption has not only hindered development of India but its role in creating and aggravating farm crisis is no less critical. Corrupt scientists, bank officials and policy makers have pushed farmers to the brink. |
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Price-tag for ties with nature?
By Sudhirendar Sharma | 24 Aug 2011
By ignoring the cultural dimension of climate change adaptation, the capital centric efforts through economic valuation of nature and people's relations with it, will alter forever peoples' attitude towards it. |
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Pushing adivasis to the brink
By Pandurang Hegde | 09 Aug 2011
On the occasion of the 'International Day of the World's Indigenous People', the policy makers should realize that unless corrective and protective measures are put in place, the adivasis would soon lose their livelihoods, culture and faith to the mad rush to exploit the natural resources. |
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Time to revive native cow breeds
By Devinder Sharma | 03 Aug 2011
Very high milk productivity of Indian cow breeds in Brazil proves that with proper nutrition, veterinary care and genetic development our desi cows can help us meet our growing milk demand. After decades of indifference, policymakers are now turning their focus on native breeds. |
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Oceans under threat
By Pandurang Hegde | 30 Jul 2011
There are heavy pressures on coastal areas and oceans due to the unregulated developmental activity. To save the oceans, we need to put a check on marine pollution, ocean acidification and over-exploitation of marine life. |
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The last hope of common man
By Devinder Sharma | 12 Jul 2011
In recent times, the Supreme Court has given some crucial judgements to curb the anti-people policies being pushed by governments in the name of development and growth. Considering the abject surrender of policymakers and media before the corrupt, judicial activism remains the only hope for the marginalised Indians. |
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Carbon Crunching
By Sudhirendar Sharma | 06 Jul 2011
The World Bank has signed an agreement with the state government of Himachal Pradesh for the largest carbon revenue project. However, the conditions of the agreement indicate that instead of putting the carbon revenue mechanism to the competitive advantage of the stakeholders, such projects continue to serve the interest of the clients. |
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Increasing prosperity, disappearing girls
By Pandurang Hegde | 30 Jun 2011
Contrary to popularly held opinion, the female to male ratio is on decline despite continuous economic growth in India. Curiously, the backward regions with poor education seem to be doing better on child sex ratio in comparison to the better-off areas. |
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Nations divide, rivers unite!
By Sudhirendar Sharma | 18 Jun 2011
Rivers in South Asia flow across national boundaries and therefore, neighbouring countries remain in dispute over the usage of flowing water. Absence of effective institutional mechanisms and political accord make it expedient to bind communities with common cultural threads using multiple cultural maps of South Asia, superimposed on the river basins. |
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Villages sinking in Bagmati's sand
By Dinesh Kumar Mishra | 10 Jun 2011
While the habitats caught between the river embankments in north Bihar are getting buried under the sediments brought in by floodwater, the flood control planners fail to realise the long term impact of their engineered solutions. |
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