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The small farmer in India has been cheated in numerous ways. Thing is to provide him with a level... more The small farmer in India has been cheated in numerous ways. Thing is to provide him with a level playing field.
This article explains the need for standardisation and protocols in key government processes and ... more This article explains the need for standardisation and protocols in key government processes and talks about the pathetic conditions in which medicines and surgical supplies are procured in public hospitals as well as the failure of state agencies to detect and prohibit.
sale of substandard drugs.
Standard Operating Protocols help improve patient care services but unfortunately these are rarel... more Standard Operating Protocols help improve patient care services but unfortunately these are rarely followed. Protocols are well known in the medical profession; they need to be taken out of textbooks and put in practice. The Chhattisgarh deaths point to a complete lack of standard protocols for procuring medicines. It is not just the agency who supplied medicine who was at fault: the fact remains they were accepted in a government facility. The sad part of the story is that it does not take much money to improve the situation. All it takes is an attitudinal change in public health settings.
The Rastogi Committee's report seems to share with the government of India the distorted view tha... more The Rastogi Committee's report seems to share with the government of India the distorted view that higher education is a sinecure and those involved in it are sinecurists. The committee cared little about the nature of higher education and its role in our society. All that it wanted to do was to curtail what seemed to it to be illegitimate plums of being a teacher.
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 1996
... (8) Role of NGO's in EGS: MR say that "Merely making exhortations for decen... more ... (8) Role of NGO's in EGS: MR say that "Merely making exhortations for decentralisation and suggesting a greater role for the NGOs may not be enough:" (para 3, p 180). ... Engkvist, Roland (1995): Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development through Public Works: The Case of ...
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 1996
Does accessing the past enable a social group to formulate strategies for existence in contempora... more Does accessing the past enable a social group to formulate strategies for existence in contemporary times? Is it necessary that a social group actually indulge in disciplined historical inquiry? As it turns out the more common experience has been of groups creating and recreating a history for themselves without reference to the canons of historical research. Is this kind of reconstruction the more authentic? Does it allow the concerned group to establish greater dignity for itself in the present? This paper reports on some ...
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 2008
The small farmer might be the solution to the ongoing crisis in the farming sector in India. Poli... more The small farmer might be the solution to the ongoing crisis in the farming sector in India. Policies need to be geared towards helping small farmers perform agricultural operations and marketing their products with greater efficiency. Instead, current policies are hoping to ...
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 1997
Faced with an unprecedented situation, the large-scale death of tribal children, the Maharashtra ... more Faced with an unprecedented situation, the large-scale death of tribal children, the Maharashtra government initiated a new set of rules for administrative functioning. The new rules, however, were seriously contested, revealing that many rules of day-to-day bureaucratic functioning are underpinned by a comprehensive political agenda.
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 2007
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 1997
Agrarian Crisis and …, Jan 1, 2010
A spectre is haunting India, the spectre of farmers' distress. Try as our policy makers would the... more A spectre is haunting India, the spectre of farmers' distress. Try as our policy makers would the phantasm just does not seem to go away. If anything, its continued expression in frequent suicides by farmers suggests that the hitherto comprehensive solutions that are being tried simply do not work. The solutions that have been suggested are so comprehensive that one has a sneaking suspicion that those who propound them are only paying lip service to the farmer in distress. Those to the left of the spectrum insist that the only solution lies in turning back the clock on globalisation and returning to protectionism, those on the right insist that the small farm is no longer a viable proposition and that these small holders need to be shifted to urban occupations so that the business of farming can be conducted by large corporations which are better suited to the task. What will happen to the small farmer in the interim is anybody's guess. Given that for India, the processes of economic liberalisation and of integration with the world economy by now seem inevitable, is it possible that an appropriate solution might lie in that old hat formula from management schools that suggests that when in grave trouble try to convert your perceived weaknesses into your strength. We suggest that the time has come to think out of the box, as it were, and make use of our extremely large mass of small and marginal farmers to rejuvenate our agriculture.
… Discrimination in Land …, Jan 1, 2010
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 1994
Why has development succeeded in Ralegan without any inputs of industrialisation and technology-o... more Why has development succeeded in Ralegan without any inputs of industrialisation and technology-oriented agriculture? To reach an approximate answer, it is necessary to take seriously the villagers' own explanation of the changes: the emphasis on moral development in their lives in the past two decades.
The small farmer in India has been cheated in numerous ways. Thing is to provide him with a level... more The small farmer in India has been cheated in numerous ways. Thing is to provide him with a level playing field.
This article explains the need for standardisation and protocols in key government processes and ... more This article explains the need for standardisation and protocols in key government processes and talks about the pathetic conditions in which medicines and surgical supplies are procured in public hospitals as well as the failure of state agencies to detect and prohibit.
sale of substandard drugs.
Standard Operating Protocols help improve patient care services but unfortunately these are rarel... more Standard Operating Protocols help improve patient care services but unfortunately these are rarely followed. Protocols are well known in the medical profession; they need to be taken out of textbooks and put in practice. The Chhattisgarh deaths point to a complete lack of standard protocols for procuring medicines. It is not just the agency who supplied medicine who was at fault: the fact remains they were accepted in a government facility. The sad part of the story is that it does not take much money to improve the situation. All it takes is an attitudinal change in public health settings.
The Rastogi Committee's report seems to share with the government of India the distorted view tha... more The Rastogi Committee's report seems to share with the government of India the distorted view that higher education is a sinecure and those involved in it are sinecurists. The committee cared little about the nature of higher education and its role in our society. All that it wanted to do was to curtail what seemed to it to be illegitimate plums of being a teacher.
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 1996
... (8) Role of NGO's in EGS: MR say that "Merely making exhortations for decen... more ... (8) Role of NGO's in EGS: MR say that "Merely making exhortations for decentralisation and suggesting a greater role for the NGOs may not be enough:" (para 3, p 180). ... Engkvist, Roland (1995): Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development through Public Works: The Case of ...
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 1996
Does accessing the past enable a social group to formulate strategies for existence in contempora... more Does accessing the past enable a social group to formulate strategies for existence in contemporary times? Is it necessary that a social group actually indulge in disciplined historical inquiry? As it turns out the more common experience has been of groups creating and recreating a history for themselves without reference to the canons of historical research. Is this kind of reconstruction the more authentic? Does it allow the concerned group to establish greater dignity for itself in the present? This paper reports on some ...
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 2008
The small farmer might be the solution to the ongoing crisis in the farming sector in India. Poli... more The small farmer might be the solution to the ongoing crisis in the farming sector in India. Policies need to be geared towards helping small farmers perform agricultural operations and marketing their products with greater efficiency. Instead, current policies are hoping to ...
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 1997
Faced with an unprecedented situation, the large-scale death of tribal children, the Maharashtra ... more Faced with an unprecedented situation, the large-scale death of tribal children, the Maharashtra government initiated a new set of rules for administrative functioning. The new rules, however, were seriously contested, revealing that many rules of day-to-day bureaucratic functioning are underpinned by a comprehensive political agenda.
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 2007
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 1997
Agrarian Crisis and …, Jan 1, 2010
A spectre is haunting India, the spectre of farmers' distress. Try as our policy makers would the... more A spectre is haunting India, the spectre of farmers' distress. Try as our policy makers would the phantasm just does not seem to go away. If anything, its continued expression in frequent suicides by farmers suggests that the hitherto comprehensive solutions that are being tried simply do not work. The solutions that have been suggested are so comprehensive that one has a sneaking suspicion that those who propound them are only paying lip service to the farmer in distress. Those to the left of the spectrum insist that the only solution lies in turning back the clock on globalisation and returning to protectionism, those on the right insist that the small farm is no longer a viable proposition and that these small holders need to be shifted to urban occupations so that the business of farming can be conducted by large corporations which are better suited to the task. What will happen to the small farmer in the interim is anybody's guess. Given that for India, the processes of economic liberalisation and of integration with the world economy by now seem inevitable, is it possible that an appropriate solution might lie in that old hat formula from management schools that suggests that when in grave trouble try to convert your perceived weaknesses into your strength. We suggest that the time has come to think out of the box, as it were, and make use of our extremely large mass of small and marginal farmers to rejuvenate our agriculture.
… Discrimination in Land …, Jan 1, 2010
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 1, 1994
Why has development succeeded in Ralegan without any inputs of industrialisation and technology-o... more Why has development succeeded in Ralegan without any inputs of industrialisation and technology-oriented agriculture? To reach an approximate answer, it is necessary to take seriously the villagers' own explanation of the changes: the emphasis on moral development in their lives in the past two decades.