The movement around Anna Hazare's fast highlights a worrying trend. No, it's not corruption. That we know. The worry is: Is Indian democracy in a state of decay? Democracy in this largest of all democratic nations seems to be working fine at first glance. We vote regularly and throw out parties in power when a majority wants change. We have a free press. We have an independent judiciary. But there's...
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Landless farmer commits suicide
-The Indian Express A landless farmer of Barahakanta village under Attabira Tehsil in the district allegedly ended his life by hanging from a tree on Tuesday. Identified as Dayanindhi Bhue (30), he was cultivating Cash crops on ‘gochar’ land for the last couple of years. Bhue was growing brinjals but luck ran out when the seeds purchased from an agency in Attabira turned out to be of poor quality. The plants did...
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-MensXP.com While everyone has been animatedly supporting Anna Hazare's fight against corruption, people seem to have forgotten who the people are who actually led to this situation. The peak of irony was when Anna was, allegedly, lodged in the same jail that housed the people who were responsible for two of the biggest scams in the country ever. How must the authorities have felt when they saw Raja and Kalmadi fill their...
More »EC issues new norms to tackle ‘paid news'
-The Hindu The Election Commission has asked the Chief Electoral Officers of States and Union Territories to obtain the standard advertisement rate cards of television and radio channels and the print media six months before the Lok Sabha/Assembly elections so as to check ‘paid news' and the misuse of the media by political parties. In a recent letter to the CEOs, the Commission said this was to ensure uniformity while dealing with...
More »Crop holiday and food security by MS Swaminathan
August is usually the preferred month for family holidays in Europe, because of abundant sunshine and warm weather. In India, normally, this is the south-west monsoon season and a busy period for farmers. This year, however, several farm families in coastal Andhra Pradesh, the rice bowl of the country, are reported to have declared ‘crop holiday’. This is because the rice mills have not been lifting even last years’ crop....
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