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Vandana Shiva: ‘Farmers today resemble refugees’

The noted environmentalist offers candid takes on India’s agrarian crisis, sustainable agriculture, and gender equality in farming.
Siddarth Muralidharan
A golden harvest of wheat in Punjab. As the impetus to growth in the farm sector steadily weakened, agriculture in the 1990s was a crisis waiting to happen.

The farming crisis

Indian agriculture is facing a crisis. Globalisation and the structural adjustment programme and skewed policy approaches adopted by successive govern
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN
Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee addressing BJP supporters at his residence in New Delhi on May 15.

The BJP's Bombs

The nuclear tests by the BJP-led Government have irrevocably altered India's strategic doctrine, undermined its policy of constructive engagement with
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN ,JOHN CHERIAN
A physically challenged woman on her way to collect pension, in Bengluru on April 18.

For an inclusive response

The government’s response to COVID-19 has a profound impact on the lives of people with disabilities as it fails to recognise their need for adaptive
Muralidharan
Wheat is among the top eight food allergens, along with soy, peanut, tree nut, dairy, egg, fish and shellfish.

Going against the grain

A recent international symposium in New Delhi on wheat-related disorders drew attention to celiac disease, one of the world’s most under-diagnosed med
Muralidharan
Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav outside the Parliament House after presenting the Railway Budget.-RAJEEV BHATT

On the popular track

Laloo Prasad Yadav presents a Railway Budget that reflects his core concerns as a politician who has not lost touch with his roots.
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram arrives at Parliament House to present the Union Budget on July 8.-RAJEEV BHATT

An exercise in evasion

In an effort to make the appropriate signals to various sections, the Union Budget takes a risky path that could lead the United Progressive Alliance
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN

Food for all

The right-to-food campaign gets a fillip with the Common Minimum Programme of the new government incorporating far-reaching commitments on food securi
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN

Freedom at the workplace

Organizing for Social Justice, Global Report under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work 2004; Internation
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN

CHALLENGES AHEAD

An unprecedented coalition of social forces that have lost out under the neo-liberal economic regime has given an unequivocal mandate for change and b
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN in New Delhi

For a new fiscal covenant

A concept paper from the Planning Commission suggests the waiver of all Central loans granted to the States. In a political context that demands a sha
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN in New Delhi

IMF and manufacture of consent

The economic realities are so complex that the orderly adjustment that the IMF seeks to construct in its latest World Economic Outlook could well end
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN
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