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Yavatmal: District of Farmers' Suicide -Prof. Madhav Sarkunde

-Boloji.com Yavatmal is one of 35 districts in Maharashtra state in Indian subcontinent. It is located in the Vidarbha region, in the east-central part of the state. By the time of British rule, its head quarter was at Wani called Wun by then; now it is shifted to Yavatmal. This district is tribal dominated one. According to the 2011 census, total population of this district is 2,772,348 inclusive of 469,000 tribal...

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What People Think-Alaka M Basu

-The Telegraph Even as it is busy trying to resolve other people's conflicts in so many parts of the world, the United Nations has recently created a conflict of its own. It began innocuously enough. The organization has always tried to get consensus around matters on which it is often very difficult to arrive at such consensus. The usual strategy to achieve this is to sufficiently water down the language in its...

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Meghali Bora packs a rural economic revolution in her branded food products -Rahul Karmakar

-The Hindustan Times Jorhat (Assam): In 2006, ten years after she started selling coconut ladoos to bail her husband out of a debt trap, Meghali Bora met Kangkaan Pegu in Majuli, a 527 sq km island in river Brahmaputra off Jorhat town 305 km east of Guwahati. The latter suffered from bipolar disorder, a manic-depressive illness marked by suicidal tendencies. Bora taught Kangkaan her conquer-adversity mantra: if your life is in a...

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A faulty food security plan-Jean-Pierre Lehmann and Suddha Chakravartti

-The Financial Express The Indian success story increasingly looks like a tale of naivety and optiMIStic complacency. The Indian success story increasingly looks like a tale of naivety and optiMIStic complacency, with the fantasy of ‘India Shining' obfuscating the reality of widespread deprivation. Despite rapid economic growth during the past decade, millions continue to live in poverty and hunger. The Indian government aims to address abject hunger and malnutrition with the National Food...

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Bonded to brick-kilns, migrants from Odisha may forfeit vote -Satyasundar Barik

-The Hindu   Loans from labour agents will keep them away till mid-June BHUBANESWAR: Tied to brick-kilns in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka because of a ‘debt-bondage,' more than three lakh migrant workers from the western districts of Odisha will MISs out on voting in the Lok Sabha polls. Odisha is going to the polls in two phases, on April 10 and 17. However, most migrant workers from these districts must have to...

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