In the run-up to #Budget2021, I am hosting a series of discussions on the six big issues Finance Minister @nsitharaman faces. 1. Markets 2. Vaccines 3. Jobs 4. Growth 5. Infrastructure 6. China
Rich farmers have weaponised their well-cultivated image of being poor farmers.
By desecrating the Tiranga they have shown contempt for a nation that feeds them their wealth.
It’s time for hard action by the state.
Political parties supporting this violence will fall by the wayside — a rising India has no patience for such opportunism.
It’s time for had action by the state.
Narrative creators still going on about ‘poor farmers’ face the facts — violence and desecration of the Tiranga have exposed the falsehoods you’re peddling.
Some readers have been asking what #India2030 is all about.
Here’s a chapter-by-chapter thread on the 20 forecasts by 20 thought leaders on 20 themes that will define India in the 2020s. 1/n
Chapter 20 of #India2030 by @davidfrawleyved talks about how the Civilizational Resurgence of India will reconnect its ancient past to ride into a dharmic future
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Chapter 19 of #India2030 by @devdip tells us what the new idea of Nationalism in the 2020s will be — an integral union of the nation with the self
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On #GitaJayanti, I prostrate before Sri Krishna for conceptualising the Bhagwad Gita, Ved Vyasa for compiling these powerful spiritual ideas, and Sri Aurobindo for taking them to the next level.
A thread...
The one shloka from the Bhagwad Gita that has dominated the 2020 discourse is on dealing with death:
नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावकः ।
न चैनं क्लेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारुतः ॥
Weapons cannot cleave it, nor the fire burn, nor do the waters drench it, nor the wind dry.
I have had to send these words of solace to many friends and relatives this year.
But finding solace requires us to read the Gita, live it.
Die the body will but death is only a passport to the next life, next evolution, the Bhagwad Gita tells us.
That’s how I read this shloka.
A thread on, and chronology of, past 20 years of discussions, debates and discourses around farm reforms — which committee said what — says end the tyranny of APMC and Essential Commodities Act, allow farmers to flourish
[Links to all primary documents below.]
19 December 2000: Expert Committee set up by the Ministry of Agriculture under the chairmanship of Shankerlal Guru.
• Call for ideas to promote agricultural growth
• Ensure that a greater share of the ultimate price of the agricultural produce goes to farmers
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29 June 2001: Shankerlal Guru Committee submits report
• Practically, farmer has no liberty to sell his produce in his village or to retail chain, processor, bulk buyer directly
• Remodel APMCs
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