Punjab never had a policy for agriculture. When asked to formulate one by the government, we drafted a Farmers’ Policy....
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Dealing with the residue
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Dealing with the residue
Given that crop residue burning has an environmental footprint and poses health hazards, one needs to be cautious while evaluating...
Unedited version of IE article “Marching against Apathy”
Agonizing; demeaned, disturbed and distressed; shaken and unnerved; duped, deceived and deserted; forsaken and forgotten; disgraced, dishonored, humiliated and discarded;...
Union Budget 2018: A Step Forward
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Union Budget 2018: A Step Forward
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. In Anna Karenina, only if a...
Potato portents
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Potato portents
The crisis in the potato crop’s prices in two of the four years of the Modi government illustrate that farmers...
A law for the farmer
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A law for the farmer
“Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter,” goes an old African proverb,...
Farm policies for India
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Farm policies for India
Farmers from across the country are out on Delhi’s streets agitating just as the deliberations for the 2018 budget are...
Can’t terrorise farmers with laws to stop stubble-burning. Understand their problem first
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Can’t terrorise farmers with laws to stop stubble-burning. Understand their problem first
The central government’s policy of not allowing Punjab to diversify is causing damage to the health of people in faraway...
Unedited version of India Today article
On being falsely targeted all his life, Charan Singh fondly called ‘Choudhary Saheb’, had once remarked ‘this propaganda will cease...