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Painting the Rainbow
Rajeev Deshpande
A 360-degree vision with a promise of sweeping changes in the rural economy and beyond
Food stocks buffer India against global shortages
The war in Ukraine has disrupted global supplies of foodgrains but it will not affect India directly as the country is self-sufficient
The Politics of Caste Census
What Modi has done over time, especially by providing public goods that were earlier local in nature, is to greatly weaken the salience of caste-based politics
The Politics of Healing
The extension of free food for another five months promises to help not just poor labourers but industry and agriculture as well
The Soil Economy
The Finance Minister says the solution to India’s agricultural system is Zero Budget Natural Farming. Is it possible?
The Rural Fetish
Throwing money at rural India without redistributing its excess population is worthless populism
Nothing Interim in the Budget
The most notable feature of this interim budget is the income support programme for small and marginal farmers
The Roadshow Apart
Protest marches by farmers and emotive appeals by politicians are no substitute for the need to fix India’s broken farm sector
Bitter Sugar
A crisis of oversupply has resulted in Rs 23,000 crore arrears owed to sugarcane farmers, a powerful political constituency that could make its discontent felt in next year’s General Election
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