By Maharshi Sanket I hadn’t been very well for many months and recovered recently. I lacked energy and a schedule, aspects of life that I thrived on. Fretting, I began finding ways to cope with this reality. Eventually, I realised I was missing the idea of succeeding. This situation opened the doors to discovering life through different perspectives. For a while, I turned to different … Continue reading Can success come from who you are?
By Maharshi Sanket There is a notion that the world is the way it is. However I firmly believe we can change it. This global crisis which everybody is bearing the brunt of is a message loud and clear. It clearly indicates that our present systems do not seem to work very well when tested by a global crisis like this one. We need to … Continue reading Rethinking and reimagining a world with different systems
Nearly 144 farmers from Araria district in Bihar have been waiting to receive the compensation promised under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) for the paddy crop loss they suffered in 2017. By Devinder Sharma, food & agriculture specialist Nearly 144 farmers from Araria district in Bihar have been waiting to receive the compensation promised under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) for … Continue reading Ease of Farming Index
When Andhra CM Jaganmohan Reddy announced liquor prohibition, India’s opinion-shapers again called it an intrusion. But few know the havoc liquor is wreaking. By Yogendra Yadav, national president-Swaraj India The Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy-led government’s decision to introduce prohibition in Andhra Pradesh has once again exposed an ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude of our opinion shapers. By and large, they maintain a conspiracy of silence on the nation-wide menace … Continue reading Urban India’s opposition to alcohol prohibition shows its ostrich-like & elitist attitude
Agriculture, food, and trade policy expert Devinder Sharma writes: “My understanding is that only agriculture can reboot the economy, sustain millions of livelihoods, and reduce global warming.” At a time when Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz says that neoliberalism is ‘dead and buried’, and the world, as a result, is increasingly grappling with the gigantic problems of rising unemployment, gnawing inequality and climatic change reaching a … Continue reading Make no mistake: Agriculture alone has the potential to reboot the economy
Policies are only as good as the statistics used for arriving at the decisions – and the Indian government has been found wanting in that respect. By Prosenjit Datta, former editor of Business Today and Businessworld magazines For a government that is extremely fond of repeating that Data is the New Oil, lack of proper, accurate and timely statistics is proving to be its Achilles … Continue reading Bad Data and Policy Making
The state of the government’s finances leaves no real option but to go for second-generation reforms By Prosenjit Datta, former editor of Business Today and Businessworld magazines The daily rise in fuel prices makes the government seem both clueless and callous when crude oil is at a record low and consumers are battling job losses and income drops. But the truth is that the Finance … Continue reading Hobson’s Choice
