-The Economic Times blog As policymakers debate what form of income support will cure India’s extensive farm distress, we have a study whose insights suggest that the right policy has to look beyond ratcheting up support prices to unsustainable levels and cash transfers to farmers. Agricultural policy is deeply flawed and calls for structural reform. This crisis can no longer be contained with band-aid. It calls for proper diagnosis and remedy. Such...
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Sabarimala: Caste Redux -TK Arun
-The Economic Times To observers outside Kerala, Sabarimala is all about misogyny, a misguided mass construing one strand of anti-woman tradition as a pillar of faith. But to those in Kerala, it is increasingly clear that resurgence of caste marks the Sabarimala protests, gender injustice being one element subsumed in that assertion of caste. At the beginning of the 20th century, Kerala’s caste system practised unapproachability. Even proximity could pollute. The Nair...
More »Prakash Singh, former IPS officer, interviewed by The Times of India
-The Times of India Blog Prakash Singh, former IPS officer who also headed the Border Security Force, dealt with naxalism in its early stages. He continues to research the movement. In a conversation with Sugandha Indulkar, he shares his idea of urban naxalism. * What is urban naxalism? Urban naxalism, in simplest terms, implies naxalism as practised in urban areas by different shades of intellectuals – lawyers, journalists, writers, doctors, professors or people...
More »Our real ranking: Highest statue in the world -- and other sad tales of rising India -Kanti Bajpai
-The Times of India blog Apparently, we should be proud that India has the highest statue in the world – taller than anything the US and China possess. Poor Sardar Patel – his memory invoked in such a schoolboy way. A giant leader, with all his strengths and weaknesses, represented by a monstrous metal emblem of rising India. As we think about the tallest statue in the world, we should also remember...
More »New data: UPA did just fine till 2011
-The Economic Times The first cut of the back series of GDP numbers based on the new methodology and new base year of 2011-12 have finally been released. The Central Statistics Office will confirm this, sooner or later. What the new series does show is that India is capable of attaining double-digit growth (10.2% in 2007-08 and 10.8% in 2010-11), and of recovering fast from a sharp slowdown inflicted by global...
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