Seeds of the Next Agricultural Revolution

Pic from the webThis essay I wrote for the book: Handbook of Indian Agriculture 2020 -- Charting the way out of the farm crisis. At an age when young people are full of hope and aspirations, a 22-year-old young farmer in Barnala district in Punjab...

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When Prof David Pimental said: "99.9% pesticides go into environment, only 0.1% hits the target pest."

Amidst a hurricane of lawsuits that the agrochemical multinational Bayer-Monsanto faces in America and elsewhere over its herbicides Roundup and Dicamba alleged link to cancer, a joint investigation by Unearthed, a journalists research group founded...

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Reject inflammatory "concentration camp" rhetoricA recent article on Poynter.org has ignited a debate about whether World War II Japanese-American detention centers should be called concentration camps.Poynter ‘s Doris Truong writes, “For far too...

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What happened to rural demand?

MNREGA workers Pointing to seven indicators that provide hope, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman claimed the economy is getting back on the track. Replying to a debate on the Union budget for 2020-21 in Lok Sabha, she said: “Government is keen...

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Stubble Burning: Examining Possible Policy Interventions

A few Days before Diwali, New Delhi had been left choking with polluted air, foul and poisonous, leading to a health emergency. If air pollution during the three weeks period around Diwali in 2017 was bad, 2019 was still worse. The spike...

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'Thalieconomics' gets it wrong

This is where the problem lies. The 27-page long chapter on the economics of a plate of food in India, which according to the Economic Survey 2020 is an attempt to quantify what a common person pays for a thali across India, only leads us to one conclusion:...

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School Suspension For First Offense Is Frequently Prohibited, But Schools Continue To Ignore Legal Mandates

By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995In 2013, the California legislature amended Education Code §48900.5, clearly specifying when a student can and cannot be suspended for a first offense, designating what...

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