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- Wednesday, Jan 27, 2010
Commentary Ten years from now, in 2020, when we try to look back, Indian agriculture can be transformed into a healthy and vibrant system where farmer suicides have been relegated to history, where distress and despondency has been replaced by the lost pride... -
- Sunday, Jan 03, 2010
Video Dr.Devinder Sharma in conversation with Ajay Kanchan on the perils of Genetically Modified Food -
- Saturday, Jan 02, 2010
Commentary There is something terribly wrong with growth economics. After all, 18 years after India ushered in economic liberalisation, the promise of high growth to reduce poverty and hunger, has not worked. In fact, it has gone the other way around: the mo... -
- Saturday, Nov 28, 2009
Commentary I think the eulogisation of Tata's has gone too far. Behind all the glamour, sobriety and humanitariasm that we read and hear about Tata's, there is a dark hidden side which is kept under wraps. It is time we look at the destructive role Tata's ha... -
- Saturday, Nov 07, 2009
ZNet Article Prime Minister Manmohan Singh often expresses his side of the dormant human face that lies somewhere burried deep inside him. A day before yesterday, as a Maoist bandh began in Orissa and in parts of West Bengal, Prime Minister acknowledged there ... -
- Saturday, Oct 31, 2009
Commentary The countdown has begun. The forthcoming UN Climate Change conference (popularly called CoP 15) scheduled to be held at Copenhagen from Dec 7-18 2009 is generating tremendous excitement. Climate change has suddenly become the buzzword. As top poli... -
- Monday, Oct 19, 2009
Commentary The late agronomist Norman Borlaug, regarded as the father of the "Green Revolution", is credited with saving millions from starvation. Despite the criticisms of environmentalists, Borlaug had a strong appreciation for the centrality of farmers' l... -
- Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Commentary Come to think of it. Over the last few years, there is more prosperity visible all around. More people have disposable incomes, more people are now travelling abroad, more people are flying around in the country, more people throng the super malls... -
- Monday, Mar 30, 2009
Commentary Top leaders from the largest 20 economies of the world -- called G-20 -- will assemble in London on April 2. As the Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros said: "this will be the world's last chance to avert economic disaster." -
- Wednesday, Mar 25, 2009
Commentary Lies, damn lies, and the Monsanto website. Tell a lie a hundred times, and the chances are that it will eventually appear to be true. When it comes to genetically modified crops, Monsanto makes such an effort – and it could be that you too are d... - All Most Recent Content
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- Sunday, Feb 12, 2006
ZNet Article Harkishanpura is a non-descript village in Bathinda district of Punjab in northwestern India. It suddenly made its way into news when in an unprecedented move the village panchayat announced that the village was up for sale. That was in Jan 2001. ... - All Featured Sharma's Articles
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