Did anyone check if they want such love? organizing agricultural markets is an exercise in managing contradictions. There is the need to ensure farmers earn from their efforts, both for reasons of social justice and the country
A country of young people lives in denial about scarcity, violence and global warming It was the best of times, Dickens says in the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities,
Because the primary resource, apart from land, is people. Ragpickers are human resource it is not easy to determine the amount of garbage India produces. No large corporations see business opportunities in it, political parties do not see votes in it, the media does not see stories in it. Stands to reason the Planning Commission has not proposed a grand plan to make India the world
When Peter Kaestner is not holding visa interviews at the US Embassy in Delhi, he prefers nurturing his ambition of spotting all the 10,000 known bird species. He has spotted 8,200 so far. He has also discovered a new bird in Colombia which is named after him. Arnab Pratim Dutta caught up with him. Excerpts: Why did you become a bird watcher? I remember getting exhilarated on seeing a bird
Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership edited by Prem Chowdhry, Sage Publications, Delhi, Rs 795 Customs and practices, Shastric prescriptions and Muslim personal laws made their way into colonial laws and got consolidated in the post-colonial period through various Union, state and concurrent laws.They placed fetters on women owning land. This volume analyses the different degrees of
An apex order will only hit the large SEZs The Supreme Court recently refused to stay the land acquisition proceedings in Raigarh, for the Mumbai Special Economic Zone (sez) promoted by Reliance Industries. According to section 11A of the Land Acquisition Act, if the process of land acquisition is not completed within two years from its commencement (June 8 in this case), the acquisition
