All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. In Anna Karenina, only if a...
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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
“Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter,” goes an old African proverb,...

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...

The classroom and the field
Although autarky on Indian farms is a distant dream, as the 71st year of Independence dawns, penury-ridden farmers are still...

A Dark Satire – Branding the farmer agitations ‘political’ betrays a lack of understanding
There is no proof required that economists commenting on farmer issues have reached an affliction point. When the counsellor one...

Who Cares About Budget?
I took the night train to Delhi to participate in budget-day discussions and my co-passenger, who boarded the train in...

Ghosts Of Ship-To-Mouth
Having inherited an unsustainable farm economy, made worse by bad monsoons and low international commodity prices, the government is struggling...

Breadbasket To Basket Case
From the breadbasket of India, Punjab has become a basket-case economy. Endowed with ample water and good soil, Punjab’s happy,...