Inflammatory language blocks discourseAn edited version of my previous column (see below) was recently published in the Los Angeles Times. Despite this, I have not yet "gone Hollywood."I received a reply email from a LA Times reader who, in my view,...
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Cities drought-proofed, farms and farmers left to die.
Water trains can provide relief to residents in Chennai. But what about 600 million people reeling under drought in rest of the country? As millions of Chennai residents are faced with a severe water crisis, Tamil Nadu is requesting Kerala to supply...
Saturday, June 22, 2019
How to make agriculture economically viable
Speaking from the ramparts of Red Fort on August 15, 1955, Jawaharlal Nehru had said: “It is very humiliating for any country to import food. So everything else can wait but not agriculture.” As India readies to celebrate 75 years of Independence in...
Monday, June 17, 2019
India is drying up, fast
With only a few elders left, all other have migrated from this drought-hit village in Anantpur.“Congratulations to all ... we have achieved 50 degree temperature this year. Let’s cut more trees to achieve 60 degrees the next year,” a sarcasm-speaking...
Thursday, June 13, 2019
"Concentration camp" rhetoric inflames, polarizesSometimes as journalists, we are so desperate to call attention to an important story that we resort to inappropriately inflammatory language. This is the case with a well-meaning but ill-conceived op-ed...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Drought getting more pronounced in India, while cities in drought affected regions remain like an oasis.
The struggle for getting waterpic courtesy LivemintAs drought looms large in many parts of the country, more than 50,000 farmers from Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra have moved to nearly 500 makeshift cattle camps that the district administrated has...
Monday, June 3, 2019
PJ project (Part 1) wraps in Northern Ireland(Derry/Dungiven/Belfast, Northern Ireland)- A few random thoughts and observations as we wrap up part 1 of our peace journalism project in Northern Ireland. The project is sponsored by the US Embassy-London.PJ...
Incorporating the US/EU farm design will not reform Indian agriculture
Taking people out of agriculture to become dehari-mazdoor in cities is not the way forward.Punjab, the food bowl, has broken all previous records in wheat productivity. From 50.64 quintals per hectare achieved last year, the average wheat yield has risen...
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