-Deccan Chronicle Currently, the government is selling milk, milk products and edible oil under the Vijaya brand. Hyderabad: The Telangana state government will start selling its own brand of organic vegetables, fruits and spices such as turmeric, ginger, red Chilli powder. Right now, the government sells milk, milk products and edible oil under the Vijaya brand. The spices will be sold under the “Telangana” brand and will cost less. A TS Horticulture Corporation...
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How Sikkim could offer lessons to other states in organic farming -G Seetharaman
-The Times of India It's 8:00 am on a Sunday and outside Denzong Cinema in Gangtok's Lal Bazar, the otherwise languid atmosphere is punctured by grocers of two kinds. On one side of the cinema are those who sell vegetables, fruits and spices sourced from outside Sikkim, mostly from Siliguri, 115 km south in West Bengal. On the other side of the cinema, almost completing a triangle, are farmers from the...
More »The Footsteps Of A Famine -Yogendra Yadav
-Outlook A visit to Bundelkhand reveals a Chilling state of affairs—one wrought in equal amount by nature, state negligence and policy failure Her answer still rings in my ears. “Bhaiyya, saawan ke mahine me ek paav daal laye thhe” (Brother, we last bought 250 grams of dal during the rains). I had asked her when was the last time she cooked dal for her family. This was village Mastapur in Tikamgarh...
More »In Tamil Nadu’s Vazhavur, another story of Dalit death and prejudice -Arun Janardhanan
-The Indian Express Denied access to public road for funeral procession, Dalit mourners helpless as police forcibly take bodies, bury them. Madurai: WITH A straight face, M Karthikeyan says his grandparents, who died recently, received “the distinction of a state burial”. “They were buried by police, only the 21-gun salute was missing,” said the 30-year-old Dalit from Nagapattinam. Behind the dark humour, is a Chilling story of how caste divisions in a Tamil Nadu...
More »Sex ratio dips, Jains & Sikhs buck trend -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India Two religious communities of India, Sikhs and Jains, have turned the corner on child sex ratio while all others showed further dips, as did the national average, according to fresh Census 2011 data released on Wednesday. Child sex ratio is the number of girls aged 0-6 years for every 1,000 boys in the same age group. It is a crucial measure for India where preference for sons and...
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