Dr Shreekant Sambrani pays tribute to Dr M S Swaminathan, the renowned agricultural scientist and a lifelong crusader against hunger who passed away in Chennai last week. IMAGE: Prime Minister......
Sharad Pawar reckons that the NCP has value as a united, going concern, not as a gaggle of leaders in search of followers, notes Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: Sharad Pawar, who stepped down as......
What these elections prove beyond any doubt (if ever there was one) that Modi's hold over the public mind and Shah's mastery of election management are unparalleled.It doesn't seem likely that they......
We have our own problems for sure and they are not trivial, but for now, our economy is in not too bad a shape, our politics is as personality-driven and authoritarian as that of most countries in......
The wars of the future will be fought over water and if they occur on large scale, will be far more devastating than any we have seen yet, says Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: Residents wait for......
Mercifully, the government is not in denial this year, as it was three years ago, writes Shreekant Sambrani Drought looms as large this year as it did in 2009, even as attempts to play down its......
The government's decision to downplay the monsoon's failure has only worsened its credibility and will lead to a worse panic, says Shreekant Sambrani. Some things never change. My previous column......
Most recently, IMD failed to predict the 2009 drought and continued to mislead policy makers into believing that it was only a 'rainfall deficit' well into August, writes Shreekant Sambrani.......
The government is doing things in agriculture that count for little, says Shreekant Sambrani. Roughly a third of the way through his Budget speech three weeks ago, the finance minister paused for......
In spite of Budget's rural focus, the government has consistently stumbled in agriculture, says Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: A farm worker carrying fodder walks in a dried paddy field on the......