-BBC Four years ago, a group of upper-caste men arrived at Mehul Vinodbhai Kabira's modest two-room home in Gujarat and threatened to burn it down. Bhayla is a nondescript village of around 450 low slung brick-and-cement homes straddling a highway dotted by pharmaceutical, engineering and bio-tech factories. Most of the homes in this dense village are owned by land-owning upper castes, but around 70 belong to Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) like Mr...
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No rain mercy in eastern India, flood toll now 59
-The Times of India DELHI/ GUWAHATI/ BHOPAL: The flood situation aggravated in Assam, Meghalaya, Bihar and West Bengal on Saturday with the toll reaching 32 even as another 27 people died in lightning strikes in Odisha. Assam was the worst affected with 27 killed even as home minister Rajnath Singh made an aerial survey of the state's flood-hit districts. "Over 30 lakh people and 28 districts have been affected. The problem is...
More »Dare To Dream: Path-Breaking Initiatives For Rural India
-HuffingtonPost.in Going back to the grassroots. Gone are the days when businesses focused solely on the bottom lines; today more and more corporates are embracing the concept of the 3 Ps: People, Profit, and Planet. As more and more organisations step up to do their bit for the community and the environment, many opportunities are opening up to improve and impact both the urban and especially the rural landscapes. Here's a quick...
More »What is the Future of Agriculture in India? -Vishavjeet Chaudhary and Gursharan Singh
-TheWire.in To give stagnant agricultural growth a boost, a shift must be made from concentrating on the country’s food security to focusing on the farmers’ income security. The stark observation made in the Economic Survey of 2015-16 that “Indian agriculture, is in a way, a victim of its own past success – especially the green revolution”, shows the Dark reality of the agriculture sector at present and the havoc that has been...
More »Flood leaves 150 Uttarakhand villages without power -Yogesh Kumar & Arpita Chakrabarty
-The Times of India DEHRADUN/ ALMORA: Over 900 villages across the state had plunged into Darkness when cloudbursts and incessant rains hit Uttarakhand on July 1. Of these, around 150 are still in the Dark. Senior officials of the Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) said on Monday that the scale of damage to transmission lines was "unprecedented" . "The strong winds and continued rains snapped many poles and supply lines were also...
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