2017-01-31T03:36:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Editorials|
Ardent promoters of organic farming consider that present day organic agriculture, which is a mix of traditional wisdom and modern science, can herald the complete development of rural areas, especially in developing countries like India where the large chunk of farmers are small, with minimal resources and limited access to [...]
2017-01-31T03:36:16+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Polity|
India’s massive demand for natural gas is a result of its easy substitution of liquid fuels such as naphtha, fuel oil, diesel etc. India at present is producing less than 100 million standard cubic meter per day (MMSCMD) and another 50 MMSCMD is imported as liquefied natural gas (LNG) (Fertiliser [...]
2017-01-31T03:36:28+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, History|
Mahatma Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose were two legendary personalities, gigantic in their political moral and ethical stature. Both of them were two worthy sons of Mother India. In 1915, soon after his return from South Africa Gandhiji became the unquestioned leader of India’s freedom movement and Indian National Congress. [...]
2017-01-31T03:36:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Since the late 1970s, the term ‘empowerment’ has been liberally applied by academics and aid workers in the English-speaking world, including in social services, social psychology, public health, adult literacy and community development. The field of international development has also embraced the term enthusiastically and the idea of empowerment features [...]
2017-01-31T03:36:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Women have had a long history of being discriminated against and exploited in Indian society. The 73rd Constitutional Amendment introduced measures to reverse these indignities. Yet, there remains strong resistance against their participation in the public sphere. […]
2017-01-31T03:37:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
‘Udta Punjab’ by Anurag Kashyap has brought the crisis of drug abuse that has gripped the State into mainstream discourse. The movie provides rare glimpses of the extent of the menace that affects all, without the bias of gender or class. The following section provides succinct previews about the worsening [...]
2017-01-31T03:37:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
As per the ‘State of the World‘s Children 2015’ report published by United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the level of children who are underweight, stunted and wasted are 44, 48 and 20 per cent respectively. However, this Report is based on 2005-06 data of National Family Health Survey-III [...]
2017-01-31T03:38:12+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
For all of us in the 21st century, Bastar is a landscape of forests, tribals and a bloody battleground for security forces and the armed insurgents known as Maoists. One way, it is a landscape of perceptions. Unless one ventures into this area in Chhattisgarh. From Jagdalpur to Dantewada, the road [...]
2017-01-31T03:38:38+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP & IR|
There has been a tectonic shift in the global geopolitical economy, to which powers such as the U.S., China and Russia have responded. However, India is yet to formulate a worldview even as Asia, after a gap of 260 years, is again set to become the centre of the world. [...]
2017-01-31T03:38:50+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, History|
Gandhi’s movement, a century ago, was a political campaign operating in a more hostile environment than today’s. Yet it brought lasting reform without alienating the opposition Our nationalist mythology has painted the Champaran movement as an outright revolt against an oppressive colonial government and business interests. But in fact, there [...]
