Seeds and Knowledge: How the Draft Seeds Bill degrades both

The central government has circulated the Draft Seeds Bill 2019, the text of which raises several red flags about the future of kisan rights, state responsibilities, the role of the private sector seed industry, More...

Built Bharat: the Modern Derangement

The India of the 1960s and 1970s which, as was often repeated in public discourse, concentrated mostly in its villages, was already looking to its big cities for inspiration and guidance in matters of style and More...

Prana, desha, anna: the modes of spiritual agriculture-II

[contextly_sidebar id=”LAfrXRo01ZwQxlfXtjhVMrZR7jgPLOKF”] Taking the yajnas and the injunctions about “annadana” as pointers to the size of a society that placed demands upon agricultural production, More...

Prana, desha, anna: the origins of spiritual agriculture- I

“Pressed (by men at the helm of affairs) in the words ‘Let food be given again and again and (also) article of wearing apparel of various kinds’ many men in that sacrifice did as they were told More...