by Global Indian | Sep 30, 2021
(This column first appeared in The Indian Express on September 30, 2021) Indian agriculture’s major challenge in the initial decades after Independence was to increase crop production and yields at any cost. Today, it’s about boosting farm incomes, while...
by Global Indian | Oct 16, 2021
(The article first appeared in Scroll on September 3, 2021) In May 1948, Gobind Behari Lal, a science writer and the first Indian to win a Pulitzer, wrote in his column about a patient at New York’s Harlem Hospital. The patient, afflicted with cancer of the...
by Global Indian | Oct 18, 2021
(Aaran Patel is an MPP candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The column first appeared in Scroll on October 13, 2021) Migrants who are driven to leave their homes in India’s rural areas because of climate change are being battered by climate...
by Global Indian | Oct 20, 2021
(Ban Ki Moon is the former secretary-general of the United States and Bambang Susantono is the ADB vice-president for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development. The column first appeared in Mint on October 18, 2021) Climate change poses the biggest...
by Global Indian | Oct 20, 2021
(Ananya Sharma is a Teaching Fellow at Ashoka University. The column first appeared in Scroll on October 20, 2021) Every night, one out of seven people on the planet go to bed hungry. As the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the poverty and hunger crisis, the...
