-PTI The Punjab and haryana High Court has directed the haryana Government to pay a compensation of Rs.6 lakh to the mother of a young man who was killed on the diktat of akhap panchayat (illegal village court) for marrying a girl belonging to the same ‘gotra' (lineage). Manoj, 23, of Kaithal and his newly-wed wife Babli, 19, were killed in Kaithal district in 2007 allegedly on the diktat of Khap or...
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Farmers on holiday by M Suchitra
Andhra farmers shun growing paddy this kharif in absence of buyers, storage space Achanta, a small village in Andhra Pradesh, hit the headlines in 1967 with a record rice yield in the kharif or monsoon crop season. It was the time of the Green Revolution. N Subba Rao, a farmer from the village, harvested three tonnes of paddy from just one kilogramme of seeds. Other farmers followed suit and the village...
More »Funding, the key by Jayati Ghosh
It is essential for India to raise the level of public expenditure in education to ensure quality. THE failure of the Indian state more than six decades after Independence to provide universal access to quality schooling and to ensure equal access to higher education among all socio-economic groups and across gender and region must surely rank among the more dismal and significant failures of the development project in the country....
More »Agitating farmers join hands against land acquisition by Bhaskar Mukherjee
Farmers from across the state have decided to join hands against the land acquisition. Farmers` action committee has planned a joint meeting on June 30, which is likely to be attended by those from Gorakhpur of Fatehabad district, Agroha of Hisar and Panjokhra of Ambala district. Farmers of Agroha are on a hunger strike for the past 25 days and those of Gorakhpur are protesting for the past 315 days. Farmer...
More »When paddy turns poison by Jaideep Hardikar
When he drank poison on January 11, farmer Hargovind Harne’s run-down hut was bursting with freshly harvested paddy. Yet he was neck-deep in debt. Even the bottle of pesticide that he used to take his own life had been bought on credit, as the bill shows. His large stock of grain wasn’t the only puzzle in the 47-year-old’s suicide. Vidarbha is infamous for continuing suicides by cotton farmers but Harne grew food,...
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