India is likely to face a warm and dry February this year, and this weather pattern can create serious problems for farmers who depend on Rabi crops for their livelihood. The...
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Before election results became television spectacles, Mark Tully carried them by radio to villages that voted long before they were heard. Mark Tully came to be known in India...
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It is a strange and painful irony that while India’s economy is often called a global "bright spot," the people who grow our food are struggling just to keep their heads...
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As India pushes its green transition into the fields, a quiet revolution is taking shape—new standards for electric tractors could determine whether farmers embrace the...
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India’s granaries are overflowing this Farmers’ Day—but for the country’s farmers, record rice stocks raise a pressing question: is this a moment of...
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The heart of India’s grape and wine industry, Maharashtra, is facing one of its toughest seasons in recent memory. Unseasonal and heavy rainfall has severely damaged the...
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There was a time when the faint, sweet scent of sugarcane juice was part of Bihar’s countryside air. From Champaran to Samastipur, the chimneys of sugar mills rose like...
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For thousands of sugarcane farmers across India’s villages, who have long waited for their rightful earnings and battled endless payment delays, the government’s new...
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The Long Shadow of Naxalbari The genesis of India's most persistent internal conflict, Left-Wing Extremism (LWE), lies in a simple...
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For over 80 crore people in India, more than the population of Europe, life balances precariously on two government lifelines: 10 kilograms of subsidized food grains and the...
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