Managing Editor, Down To Earth. He has been associated with the fortnightly since 1997 and has written extensively on rural affairs and development matters
Solace in money plant
Forestry rescues recession-ridden investors in Europe and North America
2012 a drought year, accepts government
Met department delayed fresh monsoon forecast for a fortnight. El Nino is active
Rural expenditure up by 33 per cent: NSSO
Around 83 million rural people still live on less than Rs 20 a day
Green rider for GDP
World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth
Foodgrains risk rot
No place to store seven million tonnes of procured foodgrains
Uncommon swing for commons
States rush in with new policies and programmes to protect village land
Grains of doubt
Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme
UN reviews road safety plan
India struggles to clear its image of being the accident capital of the world
New poverty estimate scrapped
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh orders for new methodology
The civil spring
Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?
New poverty estimate soon
But will it reflect true level of poverty in the country?
Crafty accounting
The budget projects a pro-poor image, while covertly playing to the market
How rural kitchen pays
Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way
Time for course correction
Congress likely to go all out to woo people in the new budget