What is happening as a response to Parshottam Rupala’s comments could be the Thakurs’ first war cry. If Rajputs across India stand up to fight, Modi’s ashvamedh will be stopped once and for all. Recently, Union minister and Modi confidant Purushottam Rupala filed his nomination in Rajkot, amidst...
This is not a new problem. Narendra Modi’s first year after the 2014 election was marred by the Dal scam, which resulted in prices of legumes touching Rs 200/kg. Now let’s look at February 2024, food inflation touched 8.66% due to costlier vegetables. This piece was...
A larger paradigm shift from subsidised, revenue-eating agriculture to a more natural, ecologically resilient, and nutrition-based system of agriculture is required India should get ready for a heatwave coming. The first signs are already felt across the country, as March temperatures in Chandigarh and Delhi were...
The chickens have come home to roost: the effects of a string of mismanaged wheat policies have now further been exacerbated by the erratic weather. With general elections less than three weeks away, reports from the northern wheat belts are raising concerns. Inclement weather is adding to...
The objective of the KMC is to go “beyond the recommendations of Swaminathan Commission in the light of challenges arising out of the growing corporate control on the supply of farm inputs resulting in the rising cost of production for farmers and on the markets...
'Sugarcane farmers are burdened with debt and no government has been able to solve our problem. Today, my family survives because I sell milk. We are in debt because of growing cash crops. I can’t even imagine the fate of farmers who grow non-cash crops,'...
Ramlila Maidan Farm Mahapanchayat: Samyukta Kisan Morcha’s success in getting permission for a mahapanchayat in Delhi even as its splinter outfit, the SKM (Non-Political) languishes at the Shambhu border, has created unease in the farm movement. GoI has played a smart political hand, but will...
Should we let the MSP system, the primary incentive for spreading paddy-wheat monocultures in the northwestern agrarian belts and destroying the ecology, spread to other areas in the same form? No. We can’t afford to deplete our groundwater and poison our soils. Farmers once again marching...
The favourite problem of the economist is food inflation, if the farmers are given a fair price then the food economy will experience hyperinflation From tear gas to iron spikes, the government has left no stone unturned to stop the farmers’ march on the Punjab-Haryana border....
For the past six months, farmer groups have been organising all over India to reiterate the demand for MSP and other agrarian issues. A new coalition was emerging between the north and south. After a silent period of gestation, the Indian farmers movement has rejuvenated itself. ...