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REVOLUTIONARY AGRICULTURE |
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Society
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Written by Himanshu
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Farmers cultivate medicinal rice; No need for GM pharma crops
The ruins are there for us to see, but we refuse to draw any lessons.
AnandaTeertha Pyati
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AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES |
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Society
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Written by Himanshu
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The Cooperative System
For decentralization, agricultural land should be managed through the cooperative system.
However, it is not wise to suddenly hand over all land to cooperative management because cooperatives evolve out of the collective labour and wisdom of a community. The community must develop an integrated economic environment, common economic needs and a ready market for its cooperatively produced goods. Unless these three factors work together, an enterprise cannot be called a cooperative.
After creating a congenial environment, land will have to be handed over to cooperative management. Then, with the help of appropriate scientific technology, it will be possible to increase agricultural production.
There should be a two phase plan to introduce cooperative land management. In the first phase, all uneconomic holdings should be required to join the cooperative system so that they will become economic holdings. In this phase, cooperatives will only consist of those people who merged their land together to make uneconomic holdings economic. Private ownership will be recognized. For instance, one person may own one acre, another two acres and a third person three acres within the cooperative. Each cooperative member will be entitled to a dividend based on the total production in proportion to the land they donated to the cooperative. Each individual will retain the deed of ownership of their land, but agricultural activities will be conducted cooperatively. Consequently, land which remained utilized as boundary lines will no longer be left uncultivated. In certain places in Bihar and Bengal the total area of arable land is less than the amount of land wasted on boundary lines. If this system is implemented, all will benefit. The leaders of the Soviet Union were ignorant of the collective psychology of the people, so they tried to impose collective farming by force. This produced severe famines and massive civil unrest. While trying to cope with these problems, the administration resorted to brute force instead of adopting psychological measures, and as a result they annihilated many people. |
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NATIONAL SECURITY - Pitfalls of A Blinkered Vision |
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Society
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Written by Himanshu
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Pitfalls of A Blinkered Vision
If the armed forces are to remain apolitical (and they must), the government has to provide them a layer of insulation, not just from the rough and tumble of politics, but also from the barbs of some sections of an ill-informed media
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Society
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Written by Dada Vedaprajinananda
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What is Patriotism ?
An army and navy represent the people's toys. To make them more attractive and acceptable, hundreds and thousands of dollars are being spent.
What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naiveté, we would watch the passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one "an eye should be,"
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Society
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Written by Dada Vedaprajinananda
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A kind of sentiment created either directly or indirectly on the basis of one or more factors such as country, language, religion, etc., plays a vital role in forming a nation. The factors themselves are quite insignificant. It is the sentiment and nothing else that creates a nation.
Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
There are numerous divergent views regarding the exact
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The Coming of the Golden Age (Part II) |
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Society
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Written by Michael Nystrom
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The first part of this article was published in the April issue. This article is the second part of the two-part series.
The cycle of social evolution is such that it keeps on going up and down like a moving wheel. There is hope that the present downturn in the global social and economic sphere will ultimately lead to an upturn. What, however, is required that masses make an effort to bring about a change rather than try to escape the situation by finding a way out for themselves. This because, the adversity which affects one today will affect others tomorrow.
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How to control a herd of humans |
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Society
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Written by David Robson
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Research shows that when people perform a particular act in a group, they develop group attachment. And, most of the people prefer their ideas or thoughts to be in consonance with their group. So, if you want people to act in a particular way, make them act in a group. Someone rightly said, man is a social animal.
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Society
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Written by Ravi Logan
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Humans organise themselves in social aggregates to meet their
collective needs and express their collective potentials. These social
units have evolved in size and nature over the course of human
existence, going from bands, to tribes, to chiefdoms, to city-states,
to nations and empires.
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Society
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Written by Acarya Krtashivananda Avadhuta
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There have always been efforts to integrate Islamic theocracy and ideals of democracy. Despite, some strong grounds to make this possible, the issue is yet to see the light of the day.
Two kinds of democratic states can be recognised in the Islamic countries. The basis of this distinction has to do with how comprehensively Islam is incorporated into the affairs of the state.
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The Pioneers of Revolution |
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Society
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Written by Shrii P. R. Sarkar
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It is very easy to talk big about revolution. Audiences may be awestruck and applaud, but to actually bring about a revolution is not at all easy.
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