India's political parties
A study of democracy is incomplete without a study of one of its most fundamental components—political parties. In India, works on the country’s political parties so far have explored, among other things,
Political Parties
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Out on their own
Government delivery programmes provide little support to farmers
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Village Punukula s different
Managing yields without pesticides
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Mourn
But it is better to take Andhra Pradesh as a challenge
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A debt ridden state can offer little to its indebted farmers
"The strategy for agriculture will certainly create new jobs, especially in the allied sector. However, agriculture's share of employment will actually reduce, from the current 70 per cent to 40-45
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INEVITABLE TRAGEDY
SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state wide farmers suicide lies one decade of neglect. Of agriculture, which sustains 70 per cent of its people, actually rendered unproductive and life denying.
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Time for the future to win
Elections 2004 are over. Was it a vote for development, social inclusion and justice? Or simply a vote against an incumbent government, flattened by sleazy and slick self promotion? The answer is
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The development laboratory
Where civil society, says SUNITA NARAIN, could learn a decentralisation lesson or two
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Update
caught in the act?: A report about a Tehelka-style spycam sting, published by national daily The Indian Express on November 16, left Bharatiya Janata Party leader Dilip Singh Judeo with no option
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Wildlife board discovers it has no say
Though touted as a statutory body with teeth, the National Wildlife Board was tamed by Union minister for environment and forests T R Baalu at its very first meeting in New Delhi on October 15. Baalu allegedly thrust upon the board a decision to drastical
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No water, no vote
The residents of Teshie, a fishing town in the suburbs of Ghana's capital city of Accra, have announced their plans to boycott the elections scheduled for December 2004 if they do not get adequate