Farmers in India are constantly being sacrificed at the altar of politics. Nothing illustrates this better than the saga of Bt Cotton.
Barun Mitra
Barun Mitra is interested in engaging with people to prospect for social capital underlying various contemporary issues, and exploring ways of making policy proposals politically viable. He is passionate about protecting property rights, as the primary interface between democratic politics and economic markets.
Those who rail against populism should realise that it is enabled by excessive state power. As long as the state has so much control over our lives, populists will keep emerging.
Our so-called reforms bypassed our farmers entirely. We can only save Agriculture by setting it free.
The Right and the Left in India are morally identical. For both of them, the end justifies the means.