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Let them live with their land and honour

Congress government has not been able to abide by its pre-election promise of addressing a range of land-related issues in the state.

22 December 2023, 19:13 IST

Let them live with their land and honour

Let them live with their land and honour

Let them live with their land and honour

22 December 2023, 19:13 IST

Dollar dreams in the land of rupees

When sounding calls to strengthen Karnataka's industrial sector, its draconian and anti-worker policies are often ignored

05 December 2022, 22:28 IST

Dollar dreams in the land of rupees

Dollar dreams in the land of rupees

Dollar dreams in the land of rupees

05 December 2022, 22:28 IST

Russia's new farmers and their significance

A nation in transition, a new nationalism seeks to challenge US-NATO hegemony and makes assertions for its own place in the new world order

11 October 2022, 20:59 IST

Russia's new farmers and their significance

Russia's new farmers and their significance

Russia's new farmers and their significance

11 October 2022, 20:59 IST

A ‘position paper’ to echo a master narrative

The report is not wrong in challenging the Western-centric orientation of social sciences in India

22 July 2022, 20:40 IST

A ‘position paper’ to echo a master narrative

A ‘position paper’ to echo a master narrative

A ‘position paper’ to echo a master narrative

22 July 2022, 20:40 IST

Chamarajanagar district's health sector needs overhaul

Key questions that any enquiry into the system needs to look at are not only at the hospital per se but to the overall conditions of the health sector in the district

08 May 2021, 23:02 IST

Chamarajanagar district's health sector needs an overhaul

Chamarajanagar district's health sector needs an overhaul

Chamarajanagar district's health sector needs overhaul

08 May 2021, 23:02 IST

'Lockdown spared no thought for the rural sector'

The biggest lesson that we must learn from this unplanned lockdown is that the current political dispensation is not really representative of the interests of the people, says social anthropologist A R Vasavi, who has studied the farmer crisis in Karnataka extensively.

12 April 2020, 02:53 IST

Coronavirus Lockdown spared no thought for the rural sector

Coronavirus Lockdown spared no thought for the rural sector

'Lockdown spared no thought for the rural sector'

12 April 2020, 02:53 IST

Those who enter commercial circuits are more vulnerable

Recurrent farmer suicides and the recent farmers’ marches in Delhi and Mumbai have made agrarian distress a political issue. Populist posturing and offerings such as loan waivers and income support are a ploy to retain electoral alliances and will only appease a section of farmers without addressing the foundational problems of rural and agrarian India. Suicides by farmers in the relatively richer and wet belts indicate that it is largely the commercialisation of agriculture and the integration of cultivators into a web of risks that is making them susceptible to high distress.

02 February 2019, 20:51 IST

Those who enter commercial circuits are more vulnerable

Those who enter commercial circuits are more vulnerable

Those who enter commercial circuits are more vulnerable

02 February 2019, 20:51 IST