Farmer Suicides Droughts, floods, and suicides: What Bihar can teach Maharashtra and other states
A deeper dive is needed to draw insights from the low prevalence of farmer suicides in Bihar than in...
Living with the clockwork floods of Barak River
The state seems to be indifferent to the plight of the large number of people settled in the Barak V...
Land comes in between plough and plate
Increasing fragmentation of cultivated land in most parts of India makes it difficult to build suppl...
Rural men must realize women need secluded bathing spaces
Women taking a bath in the open is a common enough sight in the countryside, which needs to change. ...
Budget has prepared ground for states to usher in transformation
Finance Minster Arun Jaitley has paved way for making significant transformation of rural areas a re...
Women are still considered beasts of burden in rural India
Women carrying enormous head loads remain a common sight in large swathes of the country, indicative...
India should gear up for a blue revolution
The productivity of inland fisheries can be boosted massively if governments get out of the way of o...
It’s much better to dig than to build for water
Learning from some exemplary instances in drought-prone Marathwada, it makes sense for government pr...
Convenience drives farm practices more than sustainability
For all talk of sustainable farming practices than often entail increased drudgery, there is a clear...
Small vegetable and poultry farmers severely affected by demonetization drive
Three weeks into the surprise announcement by the government to withdraw high denomination currency ...