-PTI Jaipur: After a recent incident in Bhilwara, Rajasthan, where a rape accused was beaten to death by the five-year-old victim's family members, a similar incident was reported in Hanumangarh where villagers lynched a man for allegedly trying to sexually assault a seven-year-old girl on Tuesday. A 53-year-old man from Gudiya village in Sangaria, Hanumangarh, Trilok Singh Bawri, allegedly took the seven-year-old girl from the village to his house and molested her...
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Drought dashes model farm dream - Three years without rain force dairies to sell cattle to slaughter houses -Jaideep Hardikar
-The Telegraph Dairy farmer Nivrutti Bhagwan Gaikwad, 42, wanted to take no chances with nature. A hardworking and enterprising man, he built his cattle shed scientifically in consultation with livestock experts, installing air coolers and filtered-water pipelines for his cattle, building separate compartments for the cows and the buffaloes, and erecting a fodder godown. He used high-quality cans to collect and transport the 180 litres of milk his 50 cows and buffaloes produced...
More »When water flows like money-P Sainath
-The Hindu If drought is making many in Osmanabad struggle for survival, it is also boosting a 24-hour trade that thrives on scarcity Bharat Raut spends around Rs.800 a month on petrol — just to fetch water that belongs to him. So do a lot of others in Takwiki village in Osmanabad district in Marathwada. Almost every household in Takwiki (and other villages) has one member locked into a single task each...
More »Pillorying of Ashis Nandy: His critics need hearing aids -Shiv Visvanathan
-First Post The Jaipur literary festival is almost notorious for creating storms in a teacup. To its credit though, if offers a different flavor of literary tea every year. Last year, it was a variant of the Rushdie phenomenon, where a group of aspiring litterateurs read out passages from the Satanic Verses and then succumbed to political correctness. This year, the controversy came in a session chaired by Urvashi Butalia, publisher Zubaan, where...
More »Farmers use sustainable farming for growing cotton
-AFP NURJAHANPALLY: When Mahatma Gandhi took up the baton for home-grown cotton a century ago, he may not have realised the devastating impact its cultivation would have on the land he so loved. Cotton is a thirsty plant and parts of the country are drought-prone. But the intensive farming process for cotton leaches the soil and requires high pesticide and fertiliser use that pollutes further downstream. Now in Warangal, dotted with statues to...
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