Perspectives

Policy Edits.

Policy Editorials.

New regulations to certify organic food likely to favour big brands

“We have urged the Prime Minister to ensure that the power to give certification should not be given to one single government body,”

The Centre Cannot Hold: How GN Devy challenges our concept of knowledge

Devy is now at the frontline of the war over knowledge, language and politics.

Natural Farming: a paradigm shift

ZNBF has shown increase in yields for cotton by 11%, paddy by 12%, groundnut 23% and chilli by 34% - at less than half the cost of cultivation.

Farming is a way of living that is more sustainable: Kishore

Setting up a model farm, where everything is grown (organically)...

Govt. has failed millet farmers: DDS

The MMM, being implemented by the government, could completely damage the existing bio-diversity in this area,” commented Mr. Satheesh.

Cross-border environmentalism and the future of South Asia

"When will New Delhi rise to connect the dots between representative democracy and ecological sanity?"

Kabir: Love, Mysticism and an Alternative Vision

Kabir’s deep spirituality which rests on love and self-introspection offers an alternative to bigotry and hatred

Reinterpreting Rousseau—decolonizing education and designing an education for the ecological age

Nataraja Guru's solution of Rousseau's paradox (a national education system can either aim to create a citizen or a human being...)

Democratic Confederalism

How Democracy Makes the State Wither Away