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A crash course in India’s Farmer Crisis

June 16, 2017Did you know?, Numbers don't lie, Tales of corruption and incompetenceagriculture, Andhra Pradesh, BJP, Chidambaram, Congress, corruption, crime, deceit, democracy, elections, ethics, farmer suicide, farmers, gmo, governance, Haryana, health, hindutva, hunger strike, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manmohan Singh, media, microfinance, Modi, Mumbai, NCP, Orissa, parliament, politics, Punjab, rural india, TDP, Telengana, TRS, women rightsadmin

Jan 2021: India's farming crisis has been on for decades and what we are seeing right now is just the tipping point of systemic issues that have existed forever. It is completely reasonable to hold the government of the day accountable irrespective of which political party is in power. Here's a post from 2017 explaining the various components of this crisis. India's leading rural journalist (and unfortunately one of our only ones), P. Sainath, recently Read more [...]

Kaun Banega Cr000,000,000,000repati!

July 1, 2011Political Satire, Tales of corruption and incompetence, Test yourselfanna hazare, Congress, corruption, Delhi, governance, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manmohan Singh, NCP, quiz, satire, Uttar Pradeshadmin

Are you fit to survive in today's world of scams & corruption? To help you explore the depths of your knowledge we bring to you a quiz called SCAMMED. Here you can gauge your awareness levels about various scams that have been unearthed over the last few years. We assure you that you will come across some mind boggling facts & figures during the course of the quiz. Click on START below to begin. In case you do not wish to take the entire Read more [...]