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Yet another scathing write-up on food security

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"Maharashtra ended famine forever by passing an Act that deleted the word ‘famine' from all laws of the State." Food Security - by definition "....Who will you export it to? Are there good global prices for rotting grain? Grain that even when in best condition was not of superior quality? What you will do is flog it at rock bottom prices to traders who know you won't consider any other option — like letting the hungry eat it — and can knock your prices through the floor. And then the traders can export it as cattle feed — like India has done before in this very decade. About the only thing Iran and Iraq could agree on in 30 years was that the grain exported to them from India was unfit for human consumption. Both rejected shipments early this decade. But there are always, never fear, European cattle. Talk of sacred cows — these will be subsidised by some of the hungriest humans on the planet....." Why isn't P Sainath our Minister for Agriculture? If you

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.......! We need Swaraj once again...

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The morning's headlines have given an extremely sick feeling in the pit of the stomach. Government set to let suppliers off the hook We will need to renew Tilak's call - "SWARAJ is my birthright, and I shall have it". Swaraj, this time, from predatory nations, corporate classes and political asses.

Commemorating the 6th of August

It's now six decades and a half since Hiroshima-Nagasaki. It appears that this person is the only surviving member of the 12-member crew on Enola Gay that brought hell on Earth. Apparently he has no regrets over what he did - "I've never found a way to fight a war without killing people. If you ever find that out, let me know." No, I did not consider that interview worth my time. Sincerely do not wish to sound cynical - to me it appears a typical US mind-set. In 1945, becoming a war hero at the age of 24, he may not have heard of MK Gandhi - the simply-clad son of the soil somewhere in the third world - actively trying to fight just that kind of 'war', ... Surely he's wiser now? Apparently not. Only older. Someone should let him know. As GVK put it, "Astonishing. His is an acute case of conscience-deficit disorder." 74 nations participated at a memorial event in Hiroshima. "Hiroshima was careful to ensure that the memorial — while honoring