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Yoginder K Alagh
The writer, a former Union minister, is an economist.
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Grain of truthSubscriber Only
November 23, 1999 00:00 IST
Open those windows of opportunityOn a seminar lecture tour in the US, I land up close to the Shenandoah. The US is like India, a large co...
Tue, Nov 23, 1999Power equations from the power gridSubscriber Only
November 10, 1999 00:00 IST
We have this pathetic hangover of a colonial past, to the effect that the solution to all problems is fr-om the mai baap sarkar and its c...
Wed, Nov 10, 1999Grain of truthSubscriber Only
November 09, 1999 00:00 IST
Power equations from the power gridWe have this pathetic hangover of a colonial past, to the effect that thesolution to all problems is f...
Tue, Nov 09, 1999The untold stories of growthSubscriber Only
October 26, 1999 00:00 IST
Up to a decade and a half ago, growth stories in Indian agriculture meant wheat or paddy and also Punjab, Haryana, Western UP or some del...
Tue, Oct 26, 1999The never-ending river sutraSubscriber Only
October 12, 1999 00:00 IST
The seriousness of the water crisis that India is facing and the fact that it will get worse before we turn it around, only if we make an...
Tue, Oct 12, 1999Listen to the voices of the poorSubscriber Only
September 28, 1999 00:00 IST
When the National Sample Survey asked the country if they went to bed without two square meals a day, one out of every twelve Indians sai...
Tue, Sep 28, 1999Dreams pave the road to the futureSubscriber Only
August 31, 1999 00:00 IST
The first priority of economists and planners for a village is, invariably, providing for irrigation water and land development. But the ...
Tue, Aug 31, 1999Making sense of the price indexSubscriber Only
August 17, 1999 00:00 IST
Every time there is a fall in the growth rate of prices, there is a howl. These are government statistics, the housewife, the workers and...
Tue, Aug 17, 1999The structure of scientific debatesSubscriber Only
August 03, 1999 00:00 IST
The Budapest World Science Conference was clearly a major event. The Indian media was well represented with its science doyen L.K. Sharma...
Tue, Aug 03, 1999Of scientists in drylandsSubscriber Only
July 20, 1999 00:00 IST
Deciding on awardees in this great country is always a difficult business. We are not a people who easily accept that another man should ...
Tue, Jul 20, 1999Want reality? Visit Wataman ChowkySubscriber Only
July 06, 1999 00:00 IST
An Indian novelist who won an international prize wrote an article on the Narmada. Two editors, each claiming ``exclusive'' rights, publi...
Tue, Jul 06, 1999Stairway to HeavenSubscriber Only
July 06, 1999 00:00 IST
Yellow and red, yellow and red, on 3,600 steps, across seven hills. Tirupati in midsummer burns, it's noon, what a time to start, but at ...
Tue, Jul 06, 1999Learn to defend the turfSubscriber Only
June 22, 1999 00:00 IST
Having shown the odds in the forthcoming WTO rounds, at this time we discuss the nitty gritty of our negotiation stance. We saw that the ...
Tue, Jun 22, 1999Help those who help themselvesSubscriber Only
June 08, 1999 00:00 IST
The grain of truth is that the salt of the land is shedding his blood for me and you at Drass and Batalik. Send your thoughts to him ever...
Tue, Jun 08, 1999Agricultural policy mishapsSubscriber Only
May 25, 1999 00:00 IST
Trade is becoming important for Indian agriculture. Exports have been rising fast in the Nineties as our agriculture diversifies itself w...
Tue, May 25, 1999The culture that exiles agricultureSubscriber Only
May 11, 1999 00:00 IST
Eighty thousand hectares of the finest forest burnt. Only one and a half newspaper notice it. A faltu ka controversy took place on whethe...
Tue, May 11, 1999Mapping the zone of prosperitySubscriber Only
April 27, 1999 00:00 IST
April 26 : It is interesting that what looks like a radical idea from Delhi seems sensible at the field. When the late Rajiv Gandhi talke...
Tue, Apr 27, 1999Farmer as the permanent victimSubscriber Only
April 13, 1999 00:00 IST
In very few parts of the country do farmers really understand the changes markets are making for them. There is the time honoured suspici...
Tue, Apr 13, 1999India is a statistical giantSubscriber Only
March 16, 1999 00:00 IST
With the Budget and the Economic Survey, this becomes the silly time of the year, regarding economic and statistical information. Everybo...
Tue, Mar 16, 1999Match budget statistics with strategySubscriber Only
March 02, 1999 00:00 IST
Last year in this column we had complimented the finance minister for the agriculture initiatives which were announced and not implemente...
Tue, Mar 02, 1999The tribal in his cultural zoneSubscriber Only
February 17, 1999 00:00 IST
The adivasis of western India have been in the news lately. A few years ago Bradford Morse, reviewing the Narmada projects, tried to tell...
Wed, Feb 17, 1999The tribal in his cultural zoneSubscriber Only
February 16, 1999 00:00 IST
The adivasis of western India have been in the news lately. A few years ago Bradford Morse, reviewing the Narmada projects, tried to tell...
Tue, Feb 16, 1999The rural road to prosperitySubscriber Only
January 19, 1999 00:00 IST
There are those who believe that agriculture can only prosper at the cost of the rest of the economy. The grain of truth, however, is tha...
Tue, Jan 19, 1999How to maximise agricultural exportsSubscriber Only
December 22, 1998 00:00 IST
When I go to villages the terms of discourse and discussion on economic reform and trade are not heard. It is not that the issues don't c...
Tue, Dec 22, 1998The farmer and the politics of pricesSubscriber Only
December 08, 1998 00:00 IST
Why are prices rising? Who benefits? Demand growth for agricultural goods is high and is diversifying. For decades the demand for agricul...
Tue, Dec 08, 1998Journalism of Courage
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