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Green Revolution

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Trouble down under

Posted by chandrashekhara ⋅ January 21, 2013 ⋅ Leave a comment

With the green revolution of 1970’s decade, India became self sufficient in food grain production for the first time after independence. The share of contribution to this bumper harvest, of many farmers from states like Punjab, Harayana, Rajasthan and regions surrounding national capital New Delhi, happens to be much larger than that of the farmers … Continue reading →

The Bread Winner

Posted by chandrashekhara ⋅ September 22, 2009 ⋅ Leave a comment

In the year 1968, a professor from Stanford University, Paul Ehrlich, wrote a book. He named it as ‘Population Bomb’. It immediately hit the bestseller list. In this book, the author had spelt a bleak future and doom for the Indian people. He had predicted that in decades of 1970 and 1980, millions of Indians … Continue reading →

Proving Thomas Malthus wrong.

Posted by chandrashekhara ⋅ August 5, 2009 ⋅ 5 Comments

Thomas Robert Malthus(B. 1766 D. 1834) was a British scholar. In the year 1798, he published his much famous theory about population growth. Even great Charles Darwin, as per his own noting, had found it amusing. In his theory, Malthus had stated that for any country, the population would always grow in a Geometrical Ratio. … Continue reading →