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An Innovative Farmer

Chintala Reddy was a normal farmer in a remote village of Andhra Pradesh.. but not any more.. While he continues to grow paddy and wheat in his farms.. at the same time he also has a patent now in his name!!!! While the yield in farms of other farmers is about 25 bags per acre.. his yield has gone up to 60...

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Anvils and Hammers

For all your days prepare And meet things ever alike When you are the anvil, bear When you are the hammer, strike Wonderful lines of inspiration which I remember reading in Kalam’s autobiography Wings of Fire.. Is India today a hammer or an anvil? Well, if you ask me in a overall sense it is in a transition phase from having been an anvil till britishers left us...

Thanks a lot SCMC!

My first blog talked about Clemenceau, the toxic french battleship battling to be scrapped in Indian Soil. Thanks to the Suprement Court Monitoring Committee headed by Mr.Thayagarajan (which was appointed by the honourable Supreme Court of India to get the facts right on the toxins in the ship and its impact on Indian environment/workers before the Supreme Court takes...

Swadeshi

A friend of mine asked me today looking at my Nokia handset, You talk so much about India and Indian, why are you having a handset manufactured by a foreign company? I replied to him, Not only my mobile handset, there are many other things in my house starting from TV, Refrigerator, Washing Machine etc which are manufactured by foreign companies. The concept of swadeshi...

Lack of Accountability

This is precisely a one line summary of all the problems faced by India – Lack of Accountability. Anybody can do anything and get away with it easily, the larger the crime, the more chances that one can get away with it. An unemployed youth who steals a small amount of Rs.1000 is beaten badly in the police station and sentenced for a few days of imprisonment immediately....

American Living Standards for India

What does it mean when we want India to become a developed country? We want the living standards of all Indians to be equivalent (at least) to that of other developed nations. Let us consider USA as a standard to improvise the living standards of Indians. When I say considering USA as a standard, I mean elevating the living standards of Indians to that of american standard. The...

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Social Division in Modern India

While it is an undeniable fact that Information Technology has improved the standard of living of urban India a lot, at the same time it also has to be...

India – Backdoor dumping ground for toxic waste?

Clemenceau is a french warship built between 1955 and 1961 which served France for 40 years. It also took part in 1991 Gulf war. But now it’s become old and has been replaced by french nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. So the french government has decides to decommission it. You might wonder as to what this has to do with the Great Indian Dream??!!...

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