Mainstream Weekly

Scenario of Agricultural Production

Vinod Anand — 2012-08-08T22:24:36Z

There has been spiralling rise in foodgrain prices accompanied with food shortages in almost all the developing countries. There are billions of hungry people all over the world. There are many theses to explain and rationalise this haunting vision.
Robert Malthus propounded that population will grow till it outstrips food production, and then famines, wars and epidemics will intervene to restore the balance. Is the present or impending food crisis, the vindication of Malthus?
In 1950, (…)

- 2012

Dr Radhakrishnan's Contribution to Contemporary Thought

Vinod Anand — 2011-12-27T16:15:42Z

Dr S. Radhakrishanan has a place of eminence amongst the most important thinkers of the contemporary world of philosophy and creative ideas. A man of very rare intellectual endowments, his fame rests securely on his creative interpreter of the comprehensive religious and philosophical traditions of India and of the West. What distinguishes him here is the distinctiveness and depth of interpretive power and his clear, resonant style of exposition, which together form a very important aspect (…)

- 2011

De Facto Colonisation Continues Unabated

Vinod Anand — 2009-07-02T10:51:07Z

Colonisation is the act or the process of establishing a colony or colonies like what had happened in the past. It has two distinct connotations: de facto and de jure. The first one means ‘concerning the fact' or in practice but not necessarily obtained by law. The second means ‘following the decree' and is created or developed without or contrary to regulation. In other words, de facto colonisation means what happens in real life beyond the domains of any legal sanctity, and de jure (…)

- June 2009

Poverty Syndrome: Various Facets

Vinod Anand — 2009-06-22T17:02:04Z

The literature review shows that poverty definitions currently used by various countries (especially developing) for administering their poverty programmes are inadequate, because very little research has been done in this area.
In fact, it is not easy to have one uniform definition of poverty because there are a number of specific issues that are normally linked with poverty. These are:
• the historical definitions of poverty;
• the use of index numbers in the (…)

- June 2009

Prospering India, But For Whom?

Ch. Paramaiah, Vinod Anand — 2008-03-10T06:19:04Z

Economists and various studies conducted across the globe envisage India and China to rule the world in the 21st century. For over a century the United States has been the largest economy in the world but major developments have taken place in the world economy since then, leading to the shift of focus from the US and the rich countries of Europe to the two Asian giants—India and China.
For the year 2006-07 India's GDP grew at an impressive 9.2 per cent. The share of different sectors of (…)

- March 8, 2008