Just as farmers are feeding us, the tax paying public is feeding the farmers too.Subsidy on seeds,fertilizer,farm equipment,electricity,water are all paid from taxpayer money. MSP which is often artificially high is also funded by taxpayer. No income tax. Regular loan write offs
Yet most small farmers remain pitiably poor. Why?The solution cannot be more of the same,more subsidy or artificially high MSP. Romanticizing the poverty of the Indian farmer must stop. Farmers are not doing society a favor.They are trying to eke out a living the best they can
No farmer wants to be poor.73 years after Independence if most farmers want to quit,given the chance,we need to ask why.Have our policies,ostensibly for their benefit, failed to help? If the present system is doing great why are so many of them killing themselves each year?
Surely there must be a better way of helping them do well.That is why agricultural reforms are important.Few reforms have succeeded without resistance from entrenched/vested interests keen on status quo.The Green revolution was opposed by some political parties.
The new #FarmLaws are a significant move away from the status quo.Some of them are the same laws that parties like the Congress too promised.This is also the first whiff of liberalization we have seen from the Modi Govt in 7 years. It must be given a chance. #FarmersProtests

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9 Dec
1.Hydrocarbon extraction
2.Sterlite
3.Kudankulam
4.Chennai-Salem Expressway
5.Neutrino
6.GAIL pipeline
7.Kattupalli Port
8.Uppur Thermal
Each one of these projects stalled/delayed.
Tamil Nadu is on its way to becoming a Kerala or Bengal. Oh! Kerala allowed GAIL & Vizhinjam Port
Those who say Kerala has highest social/educational indicators need to understand theirs is a remittance economy sustained by inflows from Gulf. 36% of Kerala's GDP is Gulf money. Without this their per capita income wd be half that of TN or at best 2/3rds.
Despite Gulf money per capita income of Kerala is less than TN. With a jobs crisis in Gulf due to the pandemic and falling Oil prices Kerala will face the moment of truth sooner than later.There is almost no project that causes zero environmental damage.
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24 Nov
My take on #Ayurveda doctors being allowed to perform surgery.
1.There is a 3 yr course called M.S. in Shalya Tantra (Surgery).This is offered by many Universities that offer Ayurveda courses.
2.However training is given mainly by Ayurveda doctors & not General Surgeons
3. Their reference books are both Ayurveda books and General Surgery books.
4.Apparently this has been going on for 25+ years.
5.Issue is that these surgeries are not being audited outside the Ayurveda Universities. So very little is known about their complications, outcomes etc
6.While draining an abscess or putting sutures to a skin injury may not be dangerous if done by Ayurveda doctors given surgical training,allowing them to do laparatomy (exploratory opening of abdomen) or eye surgeries like cataract/squint surgery clearly poses a risk to patients
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I oppose any ideology that divides society. That is why,as I have said many times before,to me BJP and DMK are 2 sides of the same coin. Both seek to divide.Both seek an other as an enemy.Both say sins of ancestors must be paid for by their descendants.
In Tamil Nadu for 80 years a narrative was unchallenged, A divisive narrative that demonized a minority and abused a faith. Now that is being countered. What the Brahmin was for decades the Muslim & Christian is now becoming. That is just wrong. Two wrongs do not make a right.
I am deeply secular. I believe very stongly in an India that belongs to all of us equally. An India where the only priority must be to ensure a better life for all, especially those less fortunate. So those of you who accuse me of being anti BJP or Modi, I have no hatred.
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13 Nov
Higher Education in Tamil Nadu has a "glorious" history over the last decade
1.Anna Univ.Coimbatore former VC Radhakrishnan sentenced to 5 years in prison for corruption.
2.Anna Univ. Chennai former VC Mannar Jawahar suspended for alleged corruption.
3.Anna Univ. former VC Viswanathan raided by DVAC.
4. Big scam in giving marks for cash unearthed.
5. Bharathiar Univ. former VC Ganapathi arrested as he was accepting a 30 lakh bribe.
6.TNMGR Medical Univ.former VC Meer Mustafa Hussain sentenced to 2 years in prison for corruption.
7.TNMGR Med Univ former VC Geethalakshmi raided by income Tax Dept. in 2017.
8. Now Govt sets up inquiry committee to look into corruption/other charges agst. Anna Univ VC Surappa
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Conversation today
Me:Good that #ArnabGowswami was given bail. Similarly Sudha Bharadwaj and others must also be given bail.
Friend:How can U compare an abetment to suicide case with a terror plot against country?Do you know what Sudha &others are accused of?They are terrorists
Me:How do you know they are terrorists?
Fr: They are accused of a plot to create disharmony in the country.
Me:Have you seen the evidence? Do you know it is true? Fr: Don't you watch TV?They report almost everyday that they are naxalites and extremists instigating violence
Me:And how do you know what the channels are saying is true?
Fr:Well, they all are saying the same thing. They all can't be lying can they?
Me: What makes you think all of them cannot be lying? They hv been saying economy is booming. How is your business doing?
Fr:Not good but
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Everything is a conspiracy against Tamil people. Even giving "Institute of Eminence" Tag and 1000 crores for upgrading #AnnaUniversity and giving it greater autonomy without affecting 69% reservation. It is a conspiracy to hire professors from abroad & frm industry.
It is a conspiracy to allow Anna University to tie up with foreign universities without Union Govt approvals. It is a conspiracy to allow students to study one semester abroad under exchange programs. It is a conspiracy to allow University to offer courses/programs of its choice
without approval frm Delhi. It is a conspiracy to make Anna Univ. free frm UGC inspections. It is a conspiracy to make Anna Univ the first TN State Govt run institution to be awarded IOE tag. It is a conspiracy to do this without changing administrative control from State Govt
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