Honey, I shrunk the food on your plate.
That is what the government should be telling those who have got over the tears caused by too little onion in the basket. The tears have now given way to bitterness, as sugar price has begun its journey northward, slowly but surely.

As a young agriculture reporter with the Indian Express, Devinder Sharma had covered the success story of Sukhomajri, a village near Chandigarh, where villagers came together to prevent soil erosion and fight for their environment. One of the persons who made that possible was P.R. Mishra.

Apouch of organic brown rice or arhar dal, or anything organically grown is enough to remind us of Vandana Shiva-scholar and relentless campaigner of eco rights, who has made the term 'organic' part of uppity fashion. Her 'Navdanya' label of organic grains, grown in her Dehradun farm of the same name, has become a brand.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who has been in power for almost 10 years, has been credited with taking Delhi from a doom city to a boom city. But her detractors say she has made the city a huge construction site, as it gears up for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. How do you see your two tenures?