Food security requires measurement of hunger and poverty. At one level, the debate is highly abstract, a battle of concepts…
The past year was terrible for the global economy and indeed the Indian economy. But now, for agriculture the good…
When the Met forecast was 96% of the Long Period Average with a variation of 5%?, we asked you not…
In a recent meeting the finance minister declared the government?s intention to move over to accrual accounting as quickly as…
We are doing better in agriculture. If the UPA government hadn?t raised the weather corrected growth rate from around 1.5%…
India can surely abolish hunger with its strengths, and growth record. The UPA government?s intention to do so in the…
The idea that the loan waiver won the hustings is not very bright. The loan waiver was not NREGA, which…
The International Food Policy Research Institute has given Gujarat a much sought after certificate of high performance in agriculture, right…
We need to move away from intellectual orthodoxy in response to the global economic turmoil
The IMD has come out with its first forecast of the southwest Monsoon. There was a time they didn?t make…
Mainstream political parties in India seem to have caught in a time warp of old ideas and old relationships with…
In September last year we said that growth in 2008-09 would be around 7% and in 2009-10 around 5.5% as…
Does India have a world view which it pushes in forums like the G20? In the Non Aligned G77 years…
The Eleventh Plan is largely structured around big ticket centrally sponsored or central schemes in agriculture, rural development, education, health…
Just as it was slightly premature to think that the slowdown could be avoided by reliance on agriculture in any…
A major effort by the FAO to accelerate Indian agricultural growth in India had a story on rural-urban linkages that…
Power tariff norms for the next quinquenium have been declared, and this puts a welcome end to the uncertainty surrounding…
It is fun to write an invited piece on the government?s decisions on the Alagh Committee on the role of…
