Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Oct 28: India: Unequal progress

We feel proud when we talk about Indian companies acquiring big businesses abroad, however we forget that in this race to progress we are leaving the important base of our society behind, the farmers. Recently there has been an issue of several farmers committing suicide in different parts of India, laden with debts. I hope to touch this issue this time and discuss its repercussions.

I will be joined this week by Parthiban Rajshekharan, a PhD candidate in the Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease to discuss further on this issue!

Anurag

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hello anurag boss - i got a song request for next week - "Sar Jo Tera Chakraye" from Pyaasa - I have it on cd - so let me know if you don't.

- Robert.

Anonymous said...

hey anurag .....good show as you touch a lot of touchy topics and controversial issues related to genetically hybrid seeds...their implications on debt for farmers....
this is an internationally generated crsis, in which the way these thrid world nations are pushed towards liberalization is one of the key factor affecting the lowerst ranger of workers and farmers.....and the most amazing thing is the way i mentioned that some developing nation like phillipines have already faced such adverse impacts yet the other nations like india do not try to learn the others experience....our choice to be ignorant is the root cause to all this .....guneet