I drive to Palia Kalan, in the vicinity of Dudhwa National Park, to be with friends who farm. The area...
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Palia Kalan: From Jungle Raj to Jungle Raj?

Cotton Growers: Case of the Missing Government
At two in the afternoon, the humidity is suffocating. Our elders always said that dry heat in May is a...

When Enterprise is Not Enough
Ivisit Kuldeep Singh Brar, a Sikh farmer, brimming with enthusiasm and ideas; a reflection of a bygone Punjab. The state...

Elegy on the end of the coconut palm
It was a conference on ‘Difficult Dialogues’ organized in collaboration with the London School of Economics but one held in...

Saffron Times in Srinagar
Emperor Jahangir once said about Kashmir: “Agar Firdaus bar rōy-e zamin ast, hamin ast-o hamin ast-o hamin ast (If there...

Amsterdam Dankjewel
An invitation to a World Economic Forum workshop in Amsterdam becomes doubly exciting when one gets to venture out of...

A Date with Dates
I leave home before sunrise with my friend Ravi Sweemar, a passionate vegetable farmer from a neighbouring village of Dharampura....

Down under, Farming is a wonder
Invited to Australia to speak at the Global Food Forum, 2015, I used the opportunity to try to understand agriculture...

Making the organic mantra Work
I am back in Germany in January of 2015 and I walk into a warm winter that follows the hottest...