-The Hindu The National Sample Survey Organisation's newest set of consumption expenditure data for 2011-12 gives an insight into how those across the spectrum, from the poorest to the richest, live in different parts of India. For one it's clear that we are not talking about a rich country. An individual who spends over Rs. 2,886 per month in a rural area or Rs. 6,383 per month in an urban area is...
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Forests of the night -Christophe Jaffrelot
-The Indian Express How Chhattisgarh became a sanctuary, and then a laboratory, for Naxals Some time ago, Chhattisgarh hit the headlines because of a Maoist attack on state Congress leaders, in which V.C. Shukla and Mahendra Karma died. Since then, the Congress has accused the BJP government of a conspiracy, and some BJP leaders have accused former chief minister Ajit Jogi of being part of a conspiracy himself. Politicising this tragic episode...
More »Figuring out Gujarat -Bhalchandra Mungekar
-The Indian Express The Gujarat model of development is not what its champions say it is Having realised that the people of India have not exonerated him for the post-Godhra killings of Muslims in 2002 on his watch, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi systematically tried to build up his image as a "man of development"(vikas purush). The Sangh Parivar called it the "Gujarat model of development" and started propagating it. But what...
More »The deep water crisis -P Sainath
-The Hindu Hard-working rig-operators are providing a real response to a very real demand from farmers, but with grave consequences for groundwater supplies No other town can boast as deep a connection with the rest of the country as this little one in Tamil Nadu. Machines from here have struck great depths in most Indian States (and in many African countries as well). Tiruchengode is the nation's borewell rig capital and thousands...
More »How state lost out on job scheme funds
-The Telegraph Ranchi: Implementation of MGNREGS, the Centre's flagship scheme to provide employment to the rural populace, has not been up to the mark and has failed on several fronts in jharkhand, the office of the accountant general has said. This meant funds to the tune of Rs 4591.47 crore, which could have been utilised in creating infrastructure under Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, besides providing more jobs to village people,...
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