SLUMDOGGED SOIL,Left ready to back Nitish as PM While CPIM EXUDES Confidence in Mayawati and Jayalalita:FIIs pump in Rs 984 cr in stock market; push Sensex above 12000

SLUMDOGGED SOIL,Left ready to back Nitish as PM While CPIM EXUDES Confidence in Mayawati and Jayalalita:FIIs pump in Rs 984 cr in stock market; push Sensex above 12000

 

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Former BJP ideologue K N Govindacharya said Congress and the saffron party should join hands.

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Former BJP ideologue K N Govindacharya said Congress and the saffron party should join hands and form the next government at the Centre as there was no difference between both the parties.

 

 

"As there was no difference left between the Congress and BJP over policies, both parties should join hands and form the government at the Centre," Govindacharya said at a lecture.

 

 

If both the parties come together and form the government, political instability and apprehension of possible horse-trading will wither, he said.

 

 

He said both parties' view were same on the issue of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), Shopping Malls and Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs).

 

 

Accusing both the parties of being soft on terrorism and infiltration in the country, Govindacharya said, the Congress and BJP foreign policy was same in regard to Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

 

 

 

He said that if Congress and BJP form the government at the Centre, a 'new constructive opposition' will emerge in the country which he hoped will voice the common man's concern in regard to the price rise and other issues.

 

 

Former BJP general secretary sarcastically said, "Why the Congress and BJP were apart even after pursuing the same policy - a day before the counting of votes.

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  LONDON, England (CNN) -- They are the tales of two very different people.

  

  Director Danny Boyle's film "Slumdog Millionaire" shines a stark light on poverty in India.

  

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  One an amoral businessman pouring out his life story to the Chinese Premier, the other a lovelorn teenager appearing on "Kaun Banega Crorepati," the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"

  But if their protagonists are polar opposites, both stories -- one as told in Aravind Adiga's best-selling novel "The White Tiger," the other in "Slumdog Millionaire," the new movie from "Trainspotting" director Danny Boyle -- have much in common.

  Both are based in modern day India, both feature characters who succeed against all the odds, and both have garnered considerable critical acclaim, with "Slumdog Millionaire" recently awarded the three top prizes at the British Independent Film Awards.

  "Slumdog," which is set in Mumbai, has also assumed a particularly poignant resonance in light of the recent terror attacks that left 174 people dead.

  Above all, both narratives shine a stark light on poverty -- an aspect of Indian society that has increasingly been pushed into the background by a decade and more of upbeat headlines about the country's dramatic economic growth.

  "The growth aspect has tended to receive much more attention than the darker side of the Indian story," Professor Babu Mathew, Country Director of Action Aid India, told CNN, "More and more the poverty goes unnoticed, and there is less and less of a voice for the excluded peoples."

  The breadth of the divide between what Aravind Adiga calls the "India of Light," and the "India of Darkness," is both dramatic and shocking.

  Since 1991 when "neo-liberal" market reforms were introduced, India's economy has ballooned. From 1991 to 2004, the world's largest democracy grew at 6.5 percent annually, a figure which increased to over 9 percent between 2005 and 2007.

  The result has been a massive explosion of wealth creation among the middle and upper echelons of Indian society, with Indian billionaires now occupying four of the top eight slots on the annual Forbes rich list.

  While growth has benefited one section of society, it has left a vast swathe of the population lagging far behind.

  "People in urban areas, the rich, the middle classes, the educated -- all of these have benefited from economic growth," Dr Arun Kumar of Development Alternatives Group, a sustainable development organization based in Delhi, told CNN, "Those who have not benefited are the small farmers, the rural poor, the artisans -- for these their situation has worsened."

  Nisha Agrawal, CEO of Oxfam India, agrees. "Economic growth has been primarily focused on manufacturing and services and largely in urban areas," she told CNN, "Rural agriculture has not received the kind of attention it deserves. And since the bulk of poor people derive their incomes from agriculture, that has left us with two Indias, one rich, one impoverished."

  Even a cursory glance at the statistics reveals a problem on a huge scale.

  According to World Bank estimates, 456 million people -- just over 40 percent of India's population of 1.2 billion -- now live on less than $1.25 per day, a sum recognized as the international poverty line.

  Almost half of India's children are malnourished; 1000 die every day from diarrhea; hundreds of millions have no access to proper sanitation. These figures provide a grim counterpoint to the glitzy high-rises and designer shopping malls that have sprung up throughout the country's major cities.

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More investment in basic infrastructure is seen as crucial, as is a reform of international trade agreements. "Import and energy prices have increased for farmers, but global markets are not opening up for Indian agricultural products," Agrawal told CNN, "That needs to change."

Greater access to institutional finance, the creation of new jobs and economic opportunities, and the spread of information technology all have a major role to play.

"We already have small pockets of improvement," says Arun Kumar, "But these involve limited numbers in limited geographies. "We need to scale everything up. It is a huge challenge."

The global economic problems have not bypassed India. Inflation is now running close to 12 percent and the Mumbai Stock Exchange has almost halved in value from a peak in January 2008. Sensex -- the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index -- has not registered any significant drop as a result of the recent Mumbai attacks, and it remains to be seen what the longer term effect will be on the Indian economy.

Nonetheless, these difficult and uncertain times may make the challenge of poverty reduction an even harder one. Will India be able to successfully reduce the gap between rich and poor? Leave your comments in the SoundOff box below

Both Kumar and Agrawal remain hopeful that change is coming to India, albeit slowly. "We are eternal optimists," says Kumar, "I do believe things are changing."

"The government recognizes that people don't just want a high level of growth," adds Agrawal, "But also growth that is more equalizing. We need to bring the two Indias together, and I believe we can do it."

Despite their optimism, the problems remain vast, and the darkness intense.

For the foreseeable future it seems likely the question most on the minds of India's 456 million poor will be less "Who wants to be a millionaire?" than "Will I be able to feed myself and my family today?"

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/28/india.poverty/index.html

 

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With 'Soil Not Oil', Vandana Shiva brilliantly reveals what connects humanity's most urgent crises—food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change—and why any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere. Condemning industrial biofuels and agriculture as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva champions the small independent farm instead. With millions hungry and the earth's future at peril, only sustainable, biologically diverse farms that are more resistant to disease, drought, and flood can both feed and safeguard the world for generations to come. Bold and visionary, Soil Not Oil calls for a return to sound agricultural principles—and a world based on self-organization, community, and environmental justice.

 http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/5f473da5a76ca15b80256b4400428a12/4317338ad92c53978025750e0056fc22!OpenDocument

 

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Shiva has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of ordinary people in India. Her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world.' --Ms Magazine

The South's best known environmentalist.' --New Internationalist

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Climate change will dramatically alter how we live and is already affecting the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. In Soil Not Oil, bestselling author Vandana Shiva connects the food crisis, peak oil, and climate change to show that a world beyond a dependence on fossil fuel and globalization is both possible and necessary. Bold and visionary, Shiva reveals how three crises are inherently linked and that any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere. Condemning industrial agriculture and industrial biofuels as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shivas champion is the small, independent farm. What we need most in a time of changing climates and millions hungry, she argues, are sustainable, biologically diverse farms that are more resistant to disease, drought, and flood. Calling for a return to local economies and small-scale food production Shiva outlines our remaining options: a market-centred short-term escape for the privileged, which will deepen the crisis for the poor and marginalized, or a people-centred fossil-fuel-free future, which will offer a decent living for all.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soil-Not-Oil-Climate-Insecurity/dp/1848133154

 

Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

Posted by Jeff Smith on Friday, January 2, 2009 at 1:30 PM

Tags: agriculture, environment, global warming, oil, poverty

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With all the trendy "green consumerism" and corporate green-washing that dictates so much of current discourse around environmentalism, it is important that we examine independent perspectives on the severity of the world's ecological crisis.

Vandana Shiva has provided a fresh and independent perspective for more than two decades now as she has confronted how we think about environmentalism by writing books about water, seeds, global trade policies, and patriarchy's relationship to the natural world. In her most recent book Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis, the Indian activist provides needed analysis for those of us who might be duped by the market approach to environmental justice.

Shiva argues that the world is faced with three fundamental global crises: global warming, energy use/depletion and food. The author believes that these three issues are inter-connected, therefore how we respond as a global community with any of these issues will impact the other two. Soil Not Oil does not just address those three issues, it provides an analysis and challenge to those of us in the US who think we have the best approach to solving the climate, energy and food crises.

For example, the business community has primarily dominated the response to global warming in the US, much of which has been supported by the ideas put forth by Al Gore. Shiva argues that these "solutions" are imperialist in nature since they dictate what the poorer countries of the world should do. This imperialist response by rich countries is best demonstrated by the idea of carbon trading. Carbon trading allows the biggest polluting nations and corporations to transfer their pollution onto other nations and communities by investing in "green" technology abroad. Shiva believes that the market should not be deciding how to deal with something so crucial as climate change and suggests that carbon trading is a false solution since "it does not begin with policies and laws that protect and support the nonpolluting patterns of production, distribution and consumption."

Carbon trading will in effect mean that the big polluters will be subsidized to continue to pollute, because "slightly greener" companies can sell their carbon credits to the worst polluters. This market solution provides no real incentive for developing truly sustainable ways of production, which is why Shiva believes that the nuclear industry has been cashing in on the global warming frenzy. Nuclear power has received the support of politicians and some environmental groups despite the fact that the uranium mining that is done in order for nuclear power to work is highly toxic and unsustainable.

When discussing energy use, Vandana Shiva focuses on the cost of car use in her home country of Indian. With the increase in personal auto transportation on the rise in countries like India, it not only increases the global demands of oil production, it has resulted in increased deaths and road construction. The new road construction throughout India has primarily impacted India's rural farming communities, communities that have lost their land and their livelihood.

This shift to greater car production and use in countries like India has meant less land for food, the third major crisis that Shiva tackles in Soil Not Oil. Not only does road and parking lot construction take away precious land from small farmers, it necessitates that more land is used for bio-fuels to power the machines. This has resulted in less land for food production and high prices for basic food staples. Those of us in the US have experienced increased in the cost of basic grains, but this increase in global food prices has hit people harder in countries like India. So why bio-fuels are presented as a green fuel it has actually caused more environmental destruction and poverty.

Shiva believes that the market-based solutions that the rich nations have adopted in responding to the global climate/energy/food crisis has and will only make things worse. The author believes that the power to make decisions about food and energy should be put in the hands of smaller communities, decisions that she believes would be more sustainable. Shiva cites numerous examples in India where people have created their own seed banks to promote traditional grains like millet, which is more nutritious and sustainable to grow. When local communities have control over the most fundamental resources such as food and energy production there is a greater chance that the issue of how it impact that community will be central to the decision making process, unlike when corporations or nation states impose their decisions on communities.

Soil Not Oil concludes with the author appealing to the idea encompassed in the Indian work Shakti, which means the "capacity to do" or "to have power." When local communities have the capacity and the power to determine the futures, a future that is not driven by external market forces, only then can the world overcome the global climate crisis we are faced with. Soil Not Oil is an excellent resource for those who are serious about not just averting a larger global climate crisis, but for those who want to preserve living communities of bio-diversity.

Vandana Shiva, Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis, (South End Press, 2008).

 http://www.mediamouse.org/book-reviews/2009/01/soil-not-oil.php

 

I have chosen Vandana Shiva and her latest work, SOIL, Not OIL to HIGHLIGHT the negligence Prime in Indian political Agency and it is all about the nature and nature associated SLUMDOGGED people on our Soil! I have earlier written that every Social and Human right activsist should be an ENVIRONMENT activist at first.

 

My son STEVE is IMPATIENT enough to say, `When will we WAKE and take an Initiative to SAVE this Good earth as EVERY THING is withering away whichever is associated with the NATURE.

 

MONOPLITIC Aggression against NATURE and nature associated People is the MOTTO of the Manusmriti Apartheid Zionist Ruling Global Hegemony!

 

GOBINDACHARYA is afloat with his idea of CONG BJP Coalition in a HUNG parliament. It is the FIRST Full Proof SURVIVAL strategy for the Hegemony followed by VERTICAL DIVIDE in between OBC and Rest of the Aboriginal Indigenous Minority People OPTED by the UNIVERSAL BETRAYERS, the Communists! Narendra Modi, the BUTCHER ETHNIC CLEANSING master may EMRGE as FRONTRUNNER just because of INDIA INC support! 

 

As counting of votes polled to elect a new Lok Sabha begins on Saturday, an anxious India Inc is keeping its fingers crossed on whether the country will get a stable government, which, the industry feels, can be provided by a coalition led by either the Congress or the BJP! 

 

An unstable government is the worst thing that can happen to the Indian economy grappling with the global downturn, say business leaders.

 

"There may be an uncertainty in the economy if there is a non-UPA, non-NDA government...We have seen UPA government and NDA government. There is a degree of comfort (with them)," Chairman and Managing Director of the fast moving firm Marico Ltd Harsh Mariwala said. He said the industry is worried because there could be another election mid-way if there is no stable government.

 

"This is the biggest worry," Mariwala said.

 

For Piramal Healthcare Director and senior Assocham Vice President Swati Piramal, "Stability is the main thing...it would be good if the government is led by one of the two largest national parties."

 

Stock markets were anxious over the past two days on uncertainty on government formations, with the Sensex losing nearly 280 points. However, the benchmark index rose over 300 points on Friday shedding its concerns.

 

Amid rumours that party boss Mayawati had a secret meeting with BJP's prime ministerial nominee L.K. Advani, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Friday flatly denied having any talks for a prospective alliance with either the UPA or the NDA.

 

A statement issued by the state Bahujan Samaj Party unit said: "The BSP is neither in contact with the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) or with NDA (National Democratic Alliance)." The unsigned press release on a BSP letterhead and purported to have been issued by the party "spokesman" termed news reports about such political moves as "mischievous and false". It also sought to blame such reports on the opposition.

 

Terming as "mischievous" and "unfounded" the reports that the UPA and NDA were trying to strike a deal with it for forming government at the Centre, the BSP on Friday said it was not in touch with either of the two alliances.

 

"There are reports in some newspapers and channels that the BSP is in touch with the NDA and the UPA. Such reports are baseless and notorious," the party said in an official release herein New Delhi. The BSP alleged that the reports are being spread by the opposition parties with the sole objective to create confusion among the people.

 

 "Apparently the opposition had planted such stories only to create confusion about BSP in the minds of the people, and the media too was playing into the hands of such mischievous elements," the statement said

 

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to resign on Monday after the declaration of the Lok Sabha results tomorrow but will be asked to continue as caretaker PM by President Pratibha Patil till a new government assumes office. The Prime Minister has convened a meeting of the Union Cabinet on Monday at 10 a.m to consider the one-point agenda of tendering resignation of his council of ministers to the President, PMO sources said on Friday. He is expected to call on the President the same day to submit the resignation of his council of ministers. It is the normal practice that the outgoing government steps down after the announcement of the poll verdict even if the same alliance gets majority, the sources said.

 

United States of America, Israel and Desi Illuminati do join hands to keep the Left out pf the Manusmriti ruling hegemony Arena and do their best to sustain UPA Continuti in the Peripherry Economy. On the line of Conservative Liberal government to stop labour party in britain, a projected BJP CONG Coalition is also being tried out to save Indo US Deal and strategic realliance in US Israel Lead. Brief Cases are READY to be inserted in SWISS Bank acoounts as it is High BULL Time in Great Indian horse Exchange, the parliamentary Politics!

 

Hitherto, Indian Marxists betrayed the masses and evaded the Responsibility to lead the nationawide as well as Global Resistance against Ghost war, the War against Terror and LPG Mafia. Rather they supported the Mass Destruction agenda of manusmriti Apartheid Zionist tri Iblis order and RAN hard on the Super Highway of Capitalism allying with Imperialists and fascists.

 

The latest Left Stance to Project Nitish Kumar as Third Front prime Minister candidate, ditching mayawati out, might prove to be another BRAHAMINICAL Ploy to use the OBC Power House against dalits, age old CASTE CURSE deep rooted Inequality and Injustice!

 

The suspense continues to mount in political circles on which combine-the UPA or the NDA-will be in a position to form the next government at the Centre.

 

Key political leaders are travessing the length and breadth of the country meeting each other to determine and convince who will join which coalition or front.

 

Counting of votes will take place on Saturday, and most political leaders are saying that they will confabulate and reveal their respective positions after the results emerge.

 

"We are receiving positive indications from various parties. We will not reveal what we are discussing or what we have discussed till the results are out. Once the results are out, the BJP Parliamentary Party will meet and take stock and then decide the way forward," said BJP president Rajnath Singh.

 

"Everything is fluid," said NCP leader Praful Patel.

 

Congress leaders Pranab Mukherjee, A K Antony, Ahmad Patel and Digvijay Singh were huddled in talks till late last night.

 

Given his good equation with CPI-M veterans Jyoti Basu and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Mukherjee may be given the task of opening up the lines of communication with Left parties.

 

A meeting between BJP president Rajnath Singh and Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh at a wedding reception last night set the political circles abuzz. The SP leader, however, dismissed media speculation of a political understanding being reached.

 

"People are aware that it is only Congress which can provide a stable government. All our allies are happy with us," said Jayanthi Natarajan of Congress.

 

However, BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar expressed confidence that his party will emerge as the single largest with more 30 seats that the Congress. "NDA will emerge as the single largest coalition with 50 seats more than UPA," he claimed.

 

"All options are open. Everything will depend on the numbers," said Amar Singh. The SP leader said he was in touch with CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury and would be speaking to NCP leader Sharad Pawar.

 

The Fourth Front, comprising Lalu Yadav's RJD, Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP and SP have said the combine was averse to having any alliance with the BJP as also Mayawati's BSP.

 

"Everybody is talking to everyone," Patel went on to add.

 

JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav adopted a cautious approach. "There are some people with whom we are talking with some belief. The talks have been ongoing since yesterday night," he said without elaborating.

 

"Congress does not use and throw its allies. We had a difference of opinion with RJD, LJP and the SP over the number of seats allotted to our party but they continued to be ministers and continue to be part of the UPA," explained Natarajan.

 

"We shall prevent formation of a BJP-led government. This does not mean that automatically there would be a blanket support to a government led by the Congress," CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta contended.

 

 

Hoping to get support of Left parties, the Congress on Friday wished they get lesser number of seats this time so that they don't have much room for "political manoeuvring" and drive a hard bargain after counting of votes.

 

"The Left will be left with lesser number of seats than 2004 and what political manouvering can they do with that is yet to be seen," Congress spokesman Kapil Sibal told reporters here when asked about the role of the Left in forming the next government.

 

Mr. Sibal, whose party is attempting to poach on Third Front constituents, including AIADMK, BSP and TDP, said "secular credentials of the parties will be decided after May 16 when they take their positions." He was dismissive about the Third Front, saying it was "just an idea" which would not turn into reality.

 

"There is no Third Front. The Third Front before the polls was just an idea and after the polls it will not be a reality," he said.

 

On Fourth Front comprising Samajwadi Party, RJD and LJP, Mr. Sibal said it is "our Front. All Fronts are ours."

 

Reacting to JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's statement that he would support a party which gives Bihar a special category state status, Mr. Sibal said "Nitish Kumar has to say what exactly he means by special status. The UPA has given the largest grant till date to Bihar."

 

Mr. Sibal however parried questions on whether the Congress is still open to shake hands with Mr. Nitish Kumar saying,"let Nitish first snap his relationship with the BJP".

 

He said the UPA's "old friends are with us" but declined to answer whether the Congress feels its allies RJD and LJP will trail behind the NDA in Bihar.

 

Mr. Sibal downplayed the issue of SP general secretary Amar Singh meeting BJP President Rajnath Singh at a function on Thursday night saying "any body meeting anybody cannot be objected to."

He pleaded ignorance about the Congress's reported attempts to woo the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD in Orissa.

 

The Congress leader, however, admitted that division in secular votes took place due to Left-backed Third Front.

 

"There are three secular fronts--one having Congress NCP and other parties, the other is Fourth Front comprising the RJD, LJP and SP and the last led by Left with some more parties. All three are anti-BJP."

 

"The BJP is nowhere close to power as three fourths of the polity is against it," Mr. Sibal said but declined to accept the suggestions that it was three versus one for the government formation at the Centre saying, "there is no versus. the NDA is not in race."

 

He claimed a Congress-led coalition government will be in place before the end of the month.

 

Every Swing in this BLOODY Game unfolds the HEGEMONY genocide culture and its survival Strategis to keep us ENSLAVED and Bonded on this SLUMDOGGED SOIL!

 

Mean while, Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) on Friday resumed their inflow in the domestic stock market and made a net investment of Rs 983.86 crore, pushing the BSE's benchmark index to cross 12,000 level.

 

FIIs were the gross buyer of shares worth Rs 2,672.13 crore, whereas they sold equities valued at Rs 1,688.27 crore resulting in a net buy of shares worth Rs 983.86 crore, as per the provisional data available with Bombay Stock Exchange.

 

On Thursday, FIIs had pulled out a net Rs 345.70 crore from the Indian stock market, according to the data.

 

In today's market, domestic institutional investors made a net investment of Rs 432.47 crore in equities.

 

Besides, proprietors and non-resident Indians (NRIs) were also bullish and made a net investment of Rs 60.25 crore and 0.52 crore, respectively.

 

However, brokers on the behalf of their clients, booked profit and sold shares worth Rs 457.08 crore, the BSE data shows.

 

The BSE's 30-scrip Sensex today gained 300.51 points or 2.53 per cent and closed at 12,173.42 level.

 

In a surprising move, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader A. B. Bardhan on Friday pitched in Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal- United (JD-U) leader Nitish Kumar as the likely consensus Prime Minister candidate.On the other hand, as the Congress and BJP began wooing allies, the CPI-M on Friday exuded confidence that BSP chief Mayawati and AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa will attend the meeting of the Third Front on Monday as party general secretary Prakash Karat held discussions with other alliance leaders.

 

Bardhan's statement came after Kumar demanded 'Special Status' for Bihar in lieu of his support for government at the Centre.

 

"Kumar's demand of special status was compilable and the Left front would consider him as their PM candidate," Bardhan told a TV channel in an exclusive interview.

 

With Left clearly trying to stop BJP at any cost, the National Democratic Alliance ally JD(U) has emerged as the frontrunner.

 

Kumar, however, has repeatedly denied breaking line with the NDA in the recent past.

 

It is SLUMDOGGED Soil, our Bharat Varsha.

 

I try to interact with different section of the society daily. Hawkers, Wage Labour, Govt. Employees, Public Sector Employees, House wives and Demestic Help, Generation Next and Students, Daily COMMUTERS in trains, starving People in Closed production Units, Trbals, Intellectuals, Professionals, Social Activists, Economists, Bureacrates, Journalists, writer and poets and so on! It is perhaps my life style.

 

But these INTERACTION help me to feel the Heart Throbs of the interiors of the soeiety which is IRREGULAR in Rhythms, VOLAILE as much as the Freesensex!

 

This afternoon I had to address an audience in a PSU in KOKATA. I was talking on the Linguistic cultural scenerio. It was very interactive as the DISCUSSION proved to be very Communicative as well as interactive! We tried to address thae problems of nationalities and identities, the Federal setup and resurgence of regional power!

 

On the way, I got involved with discussion with daily Commuters on Uncertainty and opportunity politicl followed by status quo in bengal and the Resistance. To my surprise, entire COPARTMENT seemed to speak against marxist Terror in Bengal.

 

It is unprecedented as bengalies have been habitula to escape the public involvement in Political discussion! At least the MASSES avoid to speak against the RULING Marxist Brahaminical Hegemony!

 

I never know whether it is a NEW Beginning or at least, a TURNING Point.

 

But I am much more concerned with the DESTINY of the SLUMDOGGED Soil, our Bharat Varsh!

 

Yes, they will attend," party Politburo member S Ramachandran Pillai told reporters when asked whether Mayawati and Jayalalithaa will attend the May 18 meeting.

 

The Third Front partners are meeting here on Monday to discuss the possibility of forming an alternative secular government.

 

With reports of cracks in the Third Front trickling in, Karat is speaking to leaders of parties attached with the alliance and exchanging views about the present political scenario.

 

Party sources said Karat spoke to TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and Orissa Chief Minister and BJD supreme Naveen Patnaik today over telephone.

 

"Karat spoke to them over telephone and exchanged views about the political situation," a top CPI(M) leader said adding, "our meetings will begin from May 17".

 

Asked whether the top leaders of other parties will attend the May 18 meeting, the leader said, "We hope they will attend whenever a decision has to be taken."

 

For the May 18 meeting, TRS, which switched over to the NDA side five days ago, has not been called.

 

The Left parties, meanwhile, are meeting here on Sunday, a day after counting, which will be followed by the CPI(M)'s Politburo meeting on May 18 and that of Central Committee the following day.

 

Earlier in the day, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said the Left was under no pressure from any other party for government formation.

 

"There is no pressure at all on us. The mood is fine and excellent," Yechury said when asked if there was pressure on them to support a secular government at the Centre.

 

On whether the Left will support Nitish Kumar as the Prime Minister of a secular front as reported in a section of the media, he said: "Let the results come out, we will know."

 

On the post-poll scenario, party Politburo member M K Pandhe said that no talks have been held so far on the issue of prime ministership.

 

"We will have to talk with our other Left allies on who should be made Prime Minister. Till results are out, we are not discussing this issue," Pandhe said.

 

CPI secretary D Raja expressed confidence that its allies in Third Front will not desert the alliance, and the efforts of Congress and BJP to woo them showed "lust for power" and "desperation" of both the parties. Raja said the Left parties will hold consultations with its allies and a "collective decision" will be taken by them on how to go about in the post-poll scenario.

 

"As far as our allies are concerned, they are with us. We are talking to them and I cannot foresee any division among us," Raja told reporters here.

 

Asked how confident his party was about its allies as they were being wooed by Congress and BJP, he said it showed the "desperation" on part of both the parties. "It also shows the lust for power of the Congress and BJP," he added.

 

On whether the Left will support a Congress-led government, Raja said they were striving for a non-Congress secular government. "Once the results are out, we will assess the verdict of people and we have called the meeting of our national executive and national council," he added.

 

"We will consult with our allies whatever we will decide. I think it will be a collective decision and we will take collective steps," he said.

 

On whether they will accept Samajwadi Party in the Third Front, Raja did not give a direct reply. "I don't know about what (SP General Secretary) Amar Singh is saying. I have not spoken to him. He has not spoken to me."

 

"The SP did not do that (support the Third Front) at the time of confidence vote. It is now for the SP to do what they want to do," he said.

 

 

A fractured mandate might make things tricky for Prez Patil!

 

With predictions of a highly-fractured verdict in the Lok Sabha elections, President Pratibha Patil is likely to have a tough task ahead on choosing the next Prime Minister who has to provide a stable government. On the eve of counting of votes, Delhi on Friday witnessed a flurry of political activity, with two major groupings UPA and NDA holding strategy sessions and exploring possibilities of roping in as many parties into their fold to shore up their numbers. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate L K Advani held a series of meetings with senior leaders of their parties and allies to discuss possible post-poll situations.

As results come out tomorrow, the President has a lot of precedents to go by in the formation of the next government with coalition being order of the day ever since 1989. Rashtrapati Bhawan sources said the President has been having in-house discussions but was yet to call in Constitution experts without the results in hand.

 

As exit polls have predicted a tight race with a slight edge for the UPA but none of the formations getting a clear majority, legal experts feel she should exercise her power in way that which ever combination she invites should be able to provide stable government.

 

UPA and NDA, Both the groupings were making efforts to keep their alliances intact besides roping in Third Front constituents, particularly BSP, JD(U), AIADMK, TDP, BJD and PMK which are expected to win a substantial number of seats.

 

With Congress and BJP trying everything to poach on constituents of Third Front, leaders of Left parties and TDP, which are the key initiators of the third alternative, talked to leaders of their allies including AIADMK to seek reassurance that they had not defected.

JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is being wooed by Congress, today created a stir by saying that his party would support a government which will grant special status to Bihar.

 

The comment was interpreted as JD(U) keeping options open on future alliance even though it is part of the BJP-led NDA. Hoping not to lose JD(U), BJP sought to read Kumar's statement in its favour.

 

"He (Nitish Kumar) knows that only the NDA can provide Bihar with such a package," BJP president Rajnath Singh said.

 

Significantly, Kumar did not turn up in Delhi for a meeting of NDA Chief Ministers scheduled today, forcing its postponement.

 

Congress spokesman Kapil Sibal said Kumar should explain what he means by the special status.

 

Aptly summing up the current political situation, NCP General Secretary Praful Patel said "everybody is in touch with everybody."

 

Gandhi held strategy sessions with senior Congress leaders, including Pranab Mukherjee, A K Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ahmed Patel.

 

Congress is hoping that Left parties would not get as many seats as the last time and end up extending support

 

"The Left will be left with lesser number of seats than 2004 and what political manouvering can they do with that is yet to be seen," Congress spokesman Kapil Sibal told reporters.

 

Advani held discussions with ally and INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala while other BJP leaders, including M Venkaiah Naidu, Narendra Modi and Arun Jaitley, were engaged in wooing more parties like TDP, AIADMK and BSP, respectively.

 

Experts Shanti Bhushan, Rajiv Dhawan and P P Rao were of the opinion that it is stability and not the numbers in the coalition which should be a factor to be considered by the President.

 

Bhushan, a former Law Minister, said there are no prescribed rules for inviting political parties and the President can invite a party or an alliance to form a government. There are various criteria on which a leader can be invited to head the government.

 

Bhushan said "the President can invite either the single largest party of the largest pre-poll alliance or the largest post-poll alliance to form the government. She can even invite a smaller alliance if she is convinced that it would be able to prove majority in the house. Agreeing that President has a crucial role when there is a fractured verdict, Dhavan said she has to bring balance between political party's arithmetic games and people's aspirations for a stable government."

 

"The President is also under moral obligation to ensure that political parties do not indulge in suitcase trading to prove majority as the anti-defection law is not applicable to parties who desert pre-poll alliance," he said.

 

Rao said there is no golden rule that the largest party or largest alliance must be invited to form the government.

 

"We know what happened when the former President Shankar Dayal Sharma invited the largest party BJP to form the government in 1997. So the President should decide on the basis of number that a particular party or alliance has but on the basis of which is better positioned to form stable government," Rao said.

 

Patil has a number of precedents to go by in taking her decision.

 

In 1989, President R Venkataraman went by the principle of calling the largest party to form by inviting Rajiv Gandhi, the Congress leader, to form the government which he declined.

 

Then BJP, the second largest party was invited, but it also declined leading to the formation of a government under V P Singh which was supported from outside by the Left and BJP.

 

It was another matter that Gandhi's refusal was preceded by backroom discussions in which the party was advised against staking claim because of its defeat in the elections.

 

Again in 1991, Venkataraman invited P V Narasimha Rao to form the government as leader of the single largest party with Congress bagging over 200 seats though it did not have majority.

 

But 1996 proved to be different when Shanker Dayal Sharma invited Atal Bihari Vajpayee as leader of the largest party to form the government which fell in 13 days because others came together post-poll to defeat the BJP government on the floor of the House.

 

To avoid any such situation, K R Narayanan insisted on letters of support from parties before inviting Vajpayee to form the government and asked to prove the majority in the House.

 

In 1999, Narayanan did not have any problems in inviting Vajpayee again because of clear majority for the BJP-led coalition.

 

Likewise, there was no problem again for him in inviting Manmohan Singh to form the government in 2004 though the Congress-led coalition got the backing of Left parties only after the elections to gain the magic figure of 272.

 

BJP to stake claim as NDA, woos old friends Maya, Amma

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New Delhi With most exit polls pointing to a UPA-NDA photo-finish, the BJP has decided that if the NDA emerges as the largest pre-poll alliance, it will stake claim even if it's not the single-largest party. So banking on major gains it's expecting from Bihar, the BJP began efforts to rope in new allies with two marathon sessions involving senior leaders, including Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi — who was specially asked to join the meeting — at the residence of the party's PM-candidate L K Advani.

It was decided that in case the NDA were to get more numbers than the now truncated UPA, "no time should be wasted" in staking claim to form the government. The leaders also discussed a range of potential allies, beginning with the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu.

The unfolding scenario was best explained by AIADMK leader Dr V Maitreyan. When asked if his party was in touch with the BJP, he told The Indian Express: "Let them (the BJP) get the numbers first. Our leader (Jayalalithaa) has already said that she would talk to people after May 16." The BJP-AIADMK backchannels are said to be active with the two sides exchanging notes on exit poll results.

The BJP also decided that JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav start talks with potential allies. So when NCP leader P A Sangma wanted to speak to the BJP on renewing the alliance in Meghalaya, Yadav was asked to meet him. The message from Yadav was that the BJP would expect Sangma to support the NDA when the time comes and the response was said to be "positive."

The broad BJP template is that barring the Left and RJD, efforts must be made to reach out to every other party. The BJP is particularly working hard on TDP and party sources claim they got an assurance from Chandrababu Naidu — just like the one from TRS — and are positive he would make his preference clear at the "right moment."

However, key to the BJP's plans are its efforts to rope in Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party. Party leaders feel that an NDA government isn't possible without either the BSP or the Samajwadi Party. Since the latter is almost ruled out, getting BSP's support holds the key.

To that effect, Modi drove to Murli Manohar Joshi's residence — it was during Joshi's term as party president that Modi addressed a rally on Jan 26 in Srinagar. Mayawati is known to have a personal equation with Joshi and Lalji Tandon in the BJP while her aide Satish Chandra Mishra is known to be on good terms with BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley.

Later, Modi also called on veteran leader Bhairon Singh Shekhawat who had raised a banner of revolt against Advani's leadership a couple of months ago but came around just before the last phase of election. Shekhawat is known to have well-wishers in almost all parties and had counted on the support of Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh in his bid for the Presidential post last year. "I have a personal rapport with Advani and I will do whatever is needed to strengthen the NDA," said Shekhawat.

Amar Singh, incidentally, was later spotted at the wedding reception of BJP president Rajanth Singh's adviser Sudhanshu Trivedi.

The Biju Janata Dal is the other party on which the BJP is, for the moment holding back its plan of action. Relying on feedback from its local unit, the BJP claims that the BJD — which walked out of the alliance just before the polls — will fall short of the halfway mark in the Assembly and will need BJP's support. This will make it easier to win the BJD over. If that does not happen, the BJP hopes that the BJD will see no option other than to back the NDA after the so-called Third Front splinters away as an alternative.

In sum, the BJP looks at its alliance building in three stages — first, the existing NDA which must get more numbers than the present UPA; then the BJD, TDP and AIADMK as partners who they believe are unlikely to have much difficulty in taking a call once the NDA stakes claim and, thereafter, parties like the BSP, NCP and some others which would require a major push from not just BJP but even its allies like the JD(U).

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Oil firms face shortage of drilling rigs: Assocham

 

New Delhi Shortage of drilling rigs and skilled personnel has caused delays in schedule of hydrocarbons' discovery by oil firms and this could lead to 20 per cent rise in India's crude imports, says a study.

"Mismatch between demand of drilling rigs and supplies on one hand and shortages of skilled personnel against their demand for oil and gas exploration if not addressed urgently, India's crude import will go up by 20 per cent," the study by industry body Assocham said.

The shortage has resulted in inordinate delays in hydrocarbon discovery schedule, it added.

Currently, about 70 per cent of India's petroleum, oil and lubricant requirements are met through imports which might go up to 90 per cent by 2010, it said.

India's oil imports in 2008-09 were 16.9 per cent higher at USD 93.17 billion over USD 79.71 billion in 2007-08.

Rigs demand have risen globally in response to relatively high energy prices and Indian exploration and production companies are facing shortages to the extent of over 60 per cent, the chamber said.

Over 145 offshore rigs were on order or under construction until recently compared to just 29 in April 2005, it added. "Fabrication yards that make rigs are running backlogs and some of the reputed yards are booked with orders till 2010."

 

Inflows into MF schemes cross Rs 1 lakh cr mark

 

New Delhi After suffering heavy outflows, the mutual fund industry witnessed a hefty over Rs 1.54 lakh crore inflows in April, mainly on account of significant investment in debt schemes.

After pulling out over Rs 54,54,650 crore in the April-March period of 2008-09, the 35 fund houses in the country saw inflows of Rs 1,54,192 crore during April.

In March, they saw outflows of Rs 7,18,196 crore, as per data available on the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) website.

"Uncertainty in the equity market has made banks park their surplus cash with income or debt funds with assured returns," Taurus Mutual Fund Managing Director R K Gupta said.

"During March the corporate houses go for cleaning up their balance sheets and therefore withdraw money invested in funds, leading to the industry witnessing outflows," he said.

While debt or income funds consumed a major chunk of the inflow worth Rs 1,03,055 crore, equity and balance funds saw redemptions to the tune of Rs 196 crore and Rs 64 crore, respectively.

Liquid or money market funds, which invest in safer and short-term instruments like treasury bills, certificates of deposit and commercial paper, saw inflows worth Rs 51,852 crore during April.

 

Will Ms. Mayawati be PM, wonders India's Dalit capital

Agra (IANS) This city, famous for the Taj Mahal, is also known as the Dalit capital of India. And people here are busy debating if Mayawati - the woman who has risen from the bottom of the social hierarchy to be Uttar Pradesh chief minister - will finally get a shot at the country's top post.

Before the verdict of the 15th Lok Sabha is finally out, Agra residents are wondering if "Ms. Mayawati will be offered the prime ministership or if history will repeat itself like in 1977, when Jagjivan Ram, the tallest Harijan leader then, was sidelined by anti-Dalit elements who installed Morarji Desai in the post".

In numerous tea shops across the city, in the Dalit neighbourhoods of Jagdishpura, Bodla, Gwalior road and elsewhere, the concern for Ms. Mayawati, chief of the Bahujan Samaj Party, is all too evident.

"The Dalits of India want to see Ms. Mayawati as the prime minister of India. The Dalits are unanimous that she fully deserves the post as she is not only an efficient administrator but also the icon of crores of Dalits all over India," says social activist Netra Pal Singh of Jagdishpura.

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Agra has a strong presence of the socially backward Jatav community, involved in the shoemaking trade. With a population of over 300,000 here, they are also present in large numbers in neighbouring towns. And these Dalits see one of their own in Ms. Mayawati.

"The BSP leaders at the local level are fully convinced that the opportunity has already knocked on Maya's doors," says Arvin Pushkar, a Dalit activist.

A Buddhist monk said if Ms. Mayawati - who has so far gone with the Third Front, in which the Left is a key player - plays her cards intelligently she could emerge as the new rallying point in the current political scenario.

It was a year and a half ago that Ms. Mayawati began to be projected as a future prime minister by several political groups, including the Leftists, and she herself has made her ambition all too evident. A section of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders has also demonstrated a soft corner for her.

Analysts here say for the Leftists in India the present moment is a historic opportunity.

"If they support Ms. Mayawati's ascendance to the top job, the Communists can ride piggyback on her party's organisational structure in Uttar Pradesh and broadbase the Left movement which has never found roots in the Hindi heartland," according to senior mediaperson Rajeev Saxena.

Ms. Mayawati's name appeared some months ago in the roster of 100 most powerful and influential women in the world, published by a prestigious American journal.

Many compare her meteoric rise with US' first black President Barack Obama.

A protege of late BSP founder Kanshi Ram, she rose from being a humble teacher to chief minister of a state which is bigger than the Russian federation in population and which sends the largest contingent of parliamentarians to India's Lok Sabha.

Most Dalit leaders prior to her had no doubt toiled to organise the underprivileged classes but they also invariably bungled their entry into the power structure.

It was Ms. Mayawati who, through sheer aggressive posturing and hard bargaining, not only ruled the state thrice but has now presented herself as an indispensable actor in the power game in New Delhi.

Her spectacular rise has meant the end of political invalidity of the Dalits and their consolidation into a crucial political constituency. They form 15 percent of the Indian electorate.

For the moment at least, Ms. Mayawati has filled a vital emotional vacuum and given a new lease of hope to the downtrodden often described as the 'wretched of the earth'.

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The Soil Is Our Liberator – Vandana Shiva

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From Vandana Shiva

Excerpted from a lecture
to the Soil Association conference,
One Planet Agriculture, England

There is increasingly reference to the Carbon Economy and I kind of shudder when carbon is addressed because carbon is what we eat also. I'd rather talk and differentiate between the fossil fuel existence of carbon and the renewable existence of carbon in embodied sunshine transformed into all the edible matter we have.

I differentiate between the fossil fuel economy of agriculture and the biodiversity economy of agriculture. One is a killing economy and one is a living economy. Interestingly the word 'carbon' is increasingly used as an equivalence term across the board and then everyone is being made afraid of every form of carbon, including living carbon.

If we add up the amount of fossil fuels that are going into food; take production, Pimentel has done all the calculations. We are using 10 times more calories in production of food than we get out as food. And there was a Danish study done some years ago. I remember I was at the conference where the environment minister laid out these figures. For a kilogram of food traveling around the world, it's omitting 10 kilograms of carbon dioxide. So you are wasting a 10-fold amount in the production and then generating a 10-fold amount of carbon dioxide, all of it totally avoidable because better food is produced when you throw the chemicals out…

The part of GATT that really troubled me was something called TRIPS within it – the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement – basically an agreement forcing every country to patent life. To me it was a scandal so I went back and started to save seeds and have ended up doing a lot of the work as a result of just, in a way, keeping seed free and in farmers' hands and not transformed into the property of giant corporations like Monsanto. But even I could not have imagined what we would go through in the decade to come.

One of the things that has taken us totally by surprise is a new epidemic of farmers' suicides. Indian peasants have been so resilient. I've been in villages after disasters of floods and droughts and hurricanes, you have one season of a loss of agriculture, one season of having to struggle, and you are right back again. You rebuild your hut and you're back on the field and you borrowed some seeds from somewhere and you're farming again.

But the new industrialised globalised agriculture is doing something different, because it's not like a natural disaster which you know will not be there in a permanent way. The first step in the globalised agriculture is dependency on what I call non-renewable seed. We've even made seed the very embodiment of life and its renewability behave like non-renewable fossil fuel – once and no more. When non-renewable seeds have to be bought each year, that's a higher cost. Then they are sold as a monopoly with intellectual property royalties linked to it. The genetically engineered BT cotton, for example, costs about 2-300 rupees for a kilogram to produce. But when Monsanto sells it for 4,000 rupees a kilogram the rest is all royalty payment.

The seeds aren't tested, they aren't adapted, the same seeds are sold across different climate zones, they obviously don't perform well. Instead of 1,500 kilograms per acre, farmers get 200, 300, sometimes total failure; add to this the fact that even if they have 300 kilograms of a bad cotton variety because its fiber is of a very inferior quality. And new studies that we have done are showing that there are huge allergies linked to it because what is BT cotton but toxic? 1,800 sheep died last year feeding on the plants. Anyone working in a mill where this Bt cotton is being used is getting allergies. Farmers who are collecting the cotton ball are getting allergies.

Linked to the fact that this is inferior cotton is the fact that in the United States there are $4 billion of subsidies linked to cotton, and now with these so-called 'open markets' the price has started to come down. In India, they've dropped to half. So your costs of production have gone up two, three, four times, sometimes 10 times, sometimes 100 times depending on what you were farming, and meantime what you are earning at the end of it has fallen to a third.

It's a negative economy. Farmers get into debt, it's unpayable debt. The people giving them the credit are the same as the salesmen and the agents at the local level. I don't know how many of you read the Economist – it has a special article on the farmers' suicides in India. We have been doing reports since the first farm suicide happened in '97. The first report was a 10 pager because only one farmer has killed himself, now there's 150,000 farmers.

 

So the fossil fuel economy, the globalised economy, is not just ruining our atmosphere. Before it ruins the atmosphere, it's killing millions. For us, the alternative is necessary just so farmers can have a safe, secure livelihood. In addition to that we have just had new surveys again from the government, the health standards of the Indian people are falling as the economy gets globalised and food is no more food, agriculture is about exports…

The planet's food. There are two kinds of one world agriculture – there's a One Planet Agriculture that respects the laws of the planet and maintains the processes of the planet, and there's another One Planet Agriculture that reduces the planet to a supermarket. And then of course it seeks the cheapest from the furthest away which means longer food miles which also means more industrialisation and more mechanisation.

For those of you who feel troubled that the new certification consideration that food that has been flown in will not be certified by Soil Association, and you are feeling troubled about the farmer in Kenya, or the farmer in India, let me tell you, by the time huge volumes of exports happen in lettuce or beans or baby corn, the farmer is the first to go.

Their land is taken away and put in the hands of agribusiness. And agribusiness through corporate farming does the exports. It's not peasants. The peasant was finished at the beginning of the process. So in fact by your refusing to add to food miles and add to carbon emissions you are in fact giving protection. You're not just protecting the atmosphere, you're protecting a peasant economy.

The imperative here for you is of course to grow more food better, to grow it locally, organically and by doing that you avoid two kinds of harm to the food sovereignty and food independence of the South. The first is you contribute to the security of livelihoods by not adding to dumping. Of course organic farmers are not involved in dumping on the South – it's too costly. Dumping means selling below the cost of production, technically, and since organic farmers aren't subsidised they can't afford to go around putting cotton on someone else's market and putting corn on someone else's market.

In any case this idea that there are surpluses to dump is a big illusion of the globalised agriculture because that surplus is created only by specialising in one or two crops so all you have is dairy and then obviously you will have oceans of milk and mountains of butter. Tracy was here this morning and I remember a piece she had done at some point in The Ecologist about how what we are seeing is not really surpluses but a swap.

So there's huge amounts of milk in England and there's huge amounts of milk in New Zealand and huge amounts of milk in The Netherlands and everyone's buying and everyone's selling and everyone's selling is subsidised for exports so that the imports everywhere end up being cheaper than local production.

So by defending a local economy you actually protect the livelihoods of Southern farmers by avoiding dumping. Dumping takes away markets, dumping takes away options to sell your produce and when you can't sell you produce you don't have a livelihood. Let me give you two examples of again how serious this can be. In '98 the United States soya lobby managed to manipulate India's market and remove all import restrictions on soya and edible oil imports. This was subsidised and the price of soya that year was $150 a tonne, the subsidy behind it was $191 a tonne. Now, with that kind of subsidy you could undercut even the low cost production within India and within a season all our local edible oil production was wiped out.

… By growing food locally you also prevent a second kind of exploitation and when that lettuce is growing in the land of the Masai and it's diverting the water of the Masai's you are actually displacing the Masai and exporting drought. You are actually contributing to displacement of local producers, pastoralists, as well as farmers.

So the energy descent here has to be an energy descent out of oil into a biodiversity economy. For us, actually the challenge is absolutely the same, except that we don't begin with the fossil fuel economy. We have to produce more food and the idea that more food can be produced through oil and chemicals is chemically wrong, physically wrong, ecologically wrong. Food is not nitrogen phosphate or potassium. No plant is primarily NPK and yet that's what we keep throwing into the soil.

Years ago, in 1984, I did my first major study on agriculture, not because I'm an agriculturist, I'm not, but I was very troubled about the fact that extremism had emerged in Punjab, terrorism had emerged in Punjab, and nobody could understand. Where was it coming from? So I went and did a study, and I found out the anger of the farmers – it's a peasant state, it's a farmers' state, Punjab. It means the land of the five rivers.

It's the most prosperous state of India, the most prosperous well-to-do farmers, most hard-working farmers, and yet the introduction of chemicals and mechanisation had meant that initially, they had subsidies and it looked like a free ride. Slowly, the subsidies got withdrawn, the World Bank paid for a decade but now they needed four bags of urea rather than one per acre. Their water levels had gone down and they needed more energy to pump out water, because the green revolution takes 10 times more water to produce the same amount of food compared to organic farming.

All of it added up to a higher cost farming, with not equivalent returns, and in that period, the farmers took to guns. They became terrorists, they directed their anger outwards. Now, in the last decade that same anger has been turned inwards, into the suicide epidemic, one difference being that at that time they could look at state agencies, the distributors of fertilisers, the dam managers, those were the people who were getting killed and assassinated in that period.

The key managers of the state pushing chemical agriculture on them. Today it's anonymous, they don't know where the real forces are, they're not identified, it's totally invisible. And Monsanto arrives in their farm, without the Monsanto name, it's a local company's name, the dealer they're dealing with has been around forever giving them good supplies and suddenly it's unreliable Bt cotton seed.

So it's anonymous, it's invisible, you can't figure it out, and all you know is you were told you'd be a millionaire. Where did it start, this becoming a millionaire game? It started as a TV show. But now they've taken it to farmers' lives, and they literally are making farmers believe that it's possible to be a millionaire – by doing everything wrong – using more chemicals, using GM seeds. We've been working now for more than 20 years to build alternatives, and we are finding that every argument that chemicals produce more food and agrichemicals are necessary and fossil fuels are necessary and mechanisation is necessary, large-scale farms are necessary – every aspect of the industrial agriculture myth is totally false.

First and foremost, chemicals, especially in tropical climates, even more than in temperate climates – they are disastrous for the soil. They've led to the creation of a water crisis both by using more water and then polluting what remains. You might have heard of the big controversy where the Coke and Pepsi was found laced with pesticide residue.

In terms of more food, definitely not. All that the green revolution did was produce more rice and wheat by converting more land to rice and wheat and irrigating it better. Land and water can account for that increase in production, you don't have to have the chemicals and definitely not the new seeds. I mentioned I've been saving seeds for the last two decades and an old variety of wheat that I'd given to a farmer…has just produced organically 6.3 tonnes on a hectare. Native seeds, organically farmed.

But very often, we think intensification of agriculture is intensification of fossil fuel and chemicals, but what we can have is intensification of biodiversity, and I have brought a few copies of our latest report, which is the 'New paradigm for food security, biodiversity-based organic farming'. Organic farming when it's merely based on external inputs and you have to keep buying them and it's a monoculture will not build up the resilience that we need to deal with the climate change that's coming. You need the biodiversity. You need the biodiversity for many, many reasons.

The first is, biodiverse farms have more biological output. They might not have more commodity output, a single commodity, they might not have more maize, but they will have more biological output and what do you need for better absorption of carbon dioxide but more biomass on your land. So it's a mitigation system.

We are also doing very long-term experiments right now on biodiverse organic farms versus industrial monocultures and finding that there is, within one season, up to 20% higher levels of carbon build-up in the soil. That's in the soil, that's not even in the above ground biomass. So it's better at mitigation, but it's also better at adaption, and it's better at adaption because biodiversity allows you to deal with the flood, or the drought, or the late rain or the early rain or the high temperature or the low temperature. Something in that diversified production system will be able to give you a yield.

Whereas, when it's one monoculture, one variety, one breed of animals, something going off. And you know, one thing about climate change is we better be prepared for things will keep changing, you're not going to have a predictable climate at all any more. But one aspect of biodiverse farms that's often ignored is that they are actually sources of energy, not consumers of energy, but producers of energy…

There isn't enough land to produce the biofuels industrially to maintain the levels of energy addiction that we have reached. Whereas at a decentralised level, farms can be a major source of energy and in the third world they are. Where else do women get their fuel from? There are two sources: one are the by-products of crops, particularly crops like leguminous crops, the pigeon pea, the toor dahl, the plant grows that high.

You get the beans, you get the dahl, at the end of it you've got food being cooked on the spares. You go to eastern India, Bangladesh, the jute, after they've got the fibre off, the jute is a wonderful fuel. Rice and wheat – you can't burn the straw but you feed it to the cattle and one of my most favourite technological innovations of the world is cow dung cakes.

Now the fact that in India, in the most densely-populated part of the Ganges basin, cow dung cakes have sustained the energy economies – isn't for nothing – it can just be renewed and renewed and renewed. And the assumption that they're diverting organic matter from the soil is not true, except in Punjab where chemical addiction was introduced, but everywhere else the women make the most sophisticated calculation about how much should go to the soil and how much should go to their hut to cook their meals. So we need to be fully alive and fully aware that the options available outside oil are limitless. Oil was limiting and limited, but how else we get energy, and we don't have to imagine that we are looking for energy today, we lived on this planet with energy. We invented fire, we learned how to cook, all of that was energy.

Human energy itself, which is the heart of the transition, because what was the industrial revolution but replacing human energy with fossil fuels. That's all it was. Now if we've to get out of oil, we've got to get back human energy into the equation. And if we've to get human energy back into the equation, there definitely are two things that we need to do.

The first is we have to stop thinking of work, physical work, as degrading. And the minute we do that, something changes. It means you here in the North can set the example to say 'it's fine to work on the land', that a peasant working on the land is not an extinct species who should disappear tomorrow.

I mentioned the Economist article and at the end of it, it's interesting that the Economist has finally reported on Indian farmers' suicide and it's called the great unravelling. And 80% of it is about how the subsidies of the North are pushing down prices, how the Bt cotton seeds are failing the farmer, but at the end of it, he doesn't say the global trading system needs to change, the global food economy needs to change, the global agriculture economy needs to change. The last sentence is 'The solution is the farmer must escape from the soil'.

Soil isn't our prison; the soil is our liberator. The soil is our meaning, and disembedding from the oil economy in the post-peak oil world means re-embedding in the soil and in all of its life. All of its life including the ability of the soil to renew itself, the ability of the soil to provide for the needs we have, the ability of the soil to give us another meaning. Which brings me to the second example that has to be set from the North. When I was thinking and hearing about transition towns, I was just thinking wouldn't it be wonderful if all these gyms that have come up for people not working were shut down and everyone was told 'your workout is going to be on the farm'.

Because surely something has gone wrong where on the one hand we say every technological invention is 'don't work, don't work, don't work, just sit' and then health is 'workout, workout, workout'. We have to overcome this schizophrenia. And I don't know how many of you read the Competitive Enterprise Institute put out ads, now that Mr Bush is also making noises, they put out these ads saying 'carbon dioxide is the most beautiful product'. And it's true, we exhale it and plants inhale it, so to accept that we haven't exhaled it biologically when we burn fossil fuels, that's a whole different relationship, and within that advertisement they have the line 'and we can't get rid of fossil fuels because they are the reason we got out of drudgery'. Now to the extent we will keep talking of work as drudgery we will annihilate the small farmer and talk about it as their liberation. When Monsanto markets Round Up in India, it has these billboards and it has a woman imprisoned with green leaves and says 'Liberate yourself, use Round Up'.

That work and weeding, which accounts for 50% of rural work for women in India, and when they were working on a one acre farm or half-acre farm, weeding is not like working on a 1,000 square kilometre farm in the United States. You might need Round Up there but our farms are like gardens, and on these gardens we can actually produce more food. There was another question that kept coming up this morning, about the big city, but I'll take the issue to the large scale farm. When I go to schools the kids will always say, 'But don't we need large scale farms to produce more?' and I always say, 'What is a large scale farm? More land in the hand of one person'.

The land is the same. It could be a thousand hectare farm in one ownership or a thousand hectares with a thousand farmers. The thousand in the one ownership does not make it more productive, it just makes it more consolidated. The concentration of ownership does not translate into higher productivity. In fact the opposite is true. All the data from around the world, and this report of ours is very detailed, is showing the smaller the farm, you can produce more because you can give it more care. And biology, after all, is a living system.

So where do we meet? We meet, literally I would say, at the door of the factory farm. You're locked into the factory farm with all the mad cow diseases and everything else that goes wrong with it and all the dependence on oil, and you need to get out. We are being told 'you have to get in'. The free range is slavery. Free range is backwardness and under-development, and we are in the climate change discussion in this terrible, terrible dilemma.

On the one hand, the North needs to de-addict. On the other hand, the South is being pushed into addiction by the same powers that created the fossil fuel addiction in the North. In the meantime, on the ground people are being squeezed out. Farmers are being squeezed out and they are saying, 'We don't want to give up farming, we don't want to give up our land, farming for us is a dignified job'. We just had a wonderful debate in Calcutta where the chief minister announced that you know these rickshaws? The non-fossil fuelled mobility? That they were degrading. And the rickshaw wallahs said, 'But we don't find it degrading, we find it extremely dignified to earn an honest living through hard work'.

So this idea that work is degrading is coming in the way, to the extent that it's the tribal, the peasant, the fisherman saying, 'I want my catamaran, I want my one acre piece of land, don't throw me out'. They are a lone voice, and they're a marginal voice, but if that same voice is joined from you, from here, to say, 'The future of the world in farming is to produce more food in diversity, locally, and that can't be done without substituting fossil fuels for renewable energy, including human energy'. Then for the first time in the last 500 years since colonialism split us into the North and South, the colonised and the coloniser, for the first time we actually have the opportunity to be one family practising a One Planet Agriculture.

What you need to do in the North is the same thing we need to do in the South, the only difference is we begin in different places, but where we have to end has to be the same end of living within the limits of this planet, producing abundance through the generous gifts the earth gives us in terms of her soil and her water and her biodiversity, and recognising that working for a living, working with the land, working with the soil, could actually be the most evolved status of being human, not something that should disappear in history and will be put into a dustbin, and that that's our common future, everywhere.
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See also Monsanto's Bt Cotton Kills Soil As Well As Farmers at Organic Consumers Association→
Hat tip Ron Epstein

(Update)

and Energy Descent and the Ag Population (Jason Bradford) at The Oil Drum→
Hat tip Linda Gray
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Soil Not Oil

17 October 2008

In a time when we are reaching the peak of world oil production and simultaneously facing a global environmental crisis brought on by a changing climate, the demand for alternatives that are energy efficient and ecologically friendly has never been higher. While environmental issues are everywhere on the dial, so far very few in the industrialized West have realized what the rest of the world has known for some time: We are precipitiously close to a massive food catastrophe. Healthy food is in shorter supply than ever before and the future fertility of much of our farm land is in jeopardy. As the cost of bread soars and rice riots erupt the world over, it is becoming increasingly clear that our collective survival hinges not on two interrelated global crises, but three: peak oil, climate change, and world hunger.

Most of the solutions proposed to the problems of peak oil and climate change have been dangerously narrow in scope, and most prescriptions for the food crisis are more of the same. Few have proposed innovative solutions. And almost no one has had the courage or foresight to show how environmental, economic, and agricultural degradation are deeply connected, and that any attempt to solve one crisis without the other will get us nowhere.

With Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis (South End Press, 2008), Vandana Shiva speaks with a bold and visionary voice that compels us to address an imperiled food supply and the destruction of our environment simultaneously and before it's too late. Accessible and bearing Shiva's inimitable style and insight, Soil Not Oil exposes the myriad ways in which industrial agricultural practices not only destroy the environment but actually cause hunger and poverty. By connecting the dots between the environment, food production, and social justice, Shiva puts forward an urgent question: Will we choose soil or oil?

Condemning biofuels as "pseudo-solutions" that allow the privileged to continue their way of life (for a few more years) while millions more starve as their lands are seized for fuel production, Shiva warns us that the globalized industrial economy can not continue in its current fuel-dependent form. Never one to only name problems, Shiva does not stop there. With Soil Not Oil, she shows us that we can create a new world that is not only ecologically sustainable, but truly just and equitable. Shiva's argument that food production and social justice must be at the center of any movement to save the environment is borne out in the real-world solutions that she proposes in Soil Not Oil. Calling for a return to local economies and small-scale food production, she provides concrete examples of how we can use sound agricultural principles, based on values of sustainability and actual democracy, to build a new society that respects the earth and all of her inhabitants.

An essential book that reminds us why Shiva is one of our most important environmental thinkers, Soil Not Oil guides us through the often murky discussion on agricultural reform and climate change, and dares us to imagine a truly sustainable world. The choice is ours.
 

Amazon link.

Praise for Vandana Shiva
"Shiva . . . has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of the ordinary people of India . . . her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world."–Ms.

"A leading thinker who has eloquently blended her views on the environment, agriculture, spirituality, and women's rights into a powerful philosophy."–Utne Reader

"[Shiva] has had a vast impact on a range of issues from forest conservation to GM crops, from world trade policy to organic farming."–The Guardian

"Shiva has made it her mission to fight for social justice in many arenas."–Time
 

About Vandana Shiva
Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world- renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is the author and editor of many books, including Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace; Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed; Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization; Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge; Monocultures of the Mind; The Violence of the Green Revolution; and Staying Alive.

Shiva is the founder of Navdanya ("nine seeds"), a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds, which has been praised by Barbara Kingsolver in the pages of the Washington Post and established a US branch in 2008. She is also a leader in the Slow Food movement and the International Forum on Globalization. She addressed the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, 1999, has appeared in films such as The Corporation, and won the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). In October 2008 Shiva will be awarded the LennonOno Grant for Peace by Yoko Ono.

Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India's leading physicists. She holds a master's degree in the philosophy of science and a PhD in particle physics.

 

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2nd phase of SEZ project faces protests Times of India - ‎22 hours ago‎ MANGALORE: MSEZ Pradesh Samrakshana Vedike, a newly formed forum consisting of Sangh Parivar organizations, staged a protest against the proposed second ... Mangalore: Protest against PCPIR Mangalorean.com M'lore: MSEZ Ltd Refutes Charges Levelled by Pradesha Samrashana ... Daijiworld.com Farmers willing to give land for SEZ: Vedike Times of India Mangalorean.com all 5 news articles » City was too slow to act on flu warning, sez Intermediate School 5 ... New York Daily News - ‎8 hours ago‎ By Nicholas Hirshon and Bill Hutchinson A teacher at one of the three Queens schools shuttered because of swine flu accused education and health officials ... This is London Album Reviews: Cause I Sez So by New York Dolls Artistdirect.com - ‎May 14, 2009‎ 'Cause I Sez So is the second album since the band's reunion a few years back, and it's actually only their fourth studio album overall! ... New York Dolls - Cause I Sez So FFWD Record Review: 'Cause I Sez So,' New York Dolls San Antonio Express The New New York Dolls Ain't Just Recycling Trash Huffington Post Digital Spy - This is London all 18 news articles » GIDC denies CAG charges on SEZ land allotment Times of India - ‎May 7, 2009‎ The report also stated that the process of allotment began even before the state government could formulate an SEZ policy. According to the report, ... File SEZ pleas by June 10, high court directs parties Times of India all 2 news articles » With CPM in deep water over SEZ, 'outsider' hopes to drop anchor Indian Express - ‎May 13, 2009‎ For Somen Mitra, the battle for Diamond Harbour LS constituency is a battle for political survival. Once close to Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, ... 'SEZs have huge trickle-down effect' Economic Times - ‎May 13, 2009‎ M&M executive director Arun Nanda spoke to ET on the group's SEZ plans. Mahindra World City has set up the country's largest IT SEZ in Jaipur, ... Fresh News Fresh SEZ proposals to be considered by new govt Business Standard - ‎May 7, 2009‎ The Board of Approval (BoA), chaired by Commerce Secretary GK Pillai, may meet immediately after the new government is formed to take up the SEZ proposals, ... Exports from SEZs set to reach Rs 1.25 lakh crore this fiscal Hindu all 15 news articles » Ranbaxy likely to start operations in two new plants Myiris.com - ‎15 hours ago‎ As per Ranbaxy`s (Q, N,C,F)* 2008 annual report, for global manufacturing the company has progressed well on the special economic zone (SEZ) at Mohali in ... Ranbaxy Laboratories may start operations in new plants this year Economic Times all 3 news articles » BOM:500359 Stock Watch EID Parry lines up Rs 50cr for Kakinada SEZ Business Standard - ‎May 6, 2009‎ Murugappa group vice-chairman A Vellayan said of the 250 acres SEZ land, the company would set up a sugar refinery on 50 acre while units related to the ... Murugappa group to invest Rs.586 crore this fiscal Hindu all 27 news articles » BOM:500125 Lincoln Electric opens mfg facility in Chennai Business Standard - ‎May 12, 2009‎ ... its $20 million (around Rs 100 crore) welding consumables manufacturing unit at Mahindra World City, a special economic zone (SEZ), near Chennai. ... 'Are You Ready' for welding safety training? Plant Engineering Lincoln Electric Dedicates New Welding Consumables Facility in ... PR Newswire (press release) all 33 news articles » LECO – BOM:500520 Stay up to date on these results: Create an email alert for SEZ Add a custom section for SEZ to Google News Add a news gadget for SEZ to your Google homepage

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1. MAHUA DABAR and the Destroyed Villages of BHARAT VARSH ...

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1. Multinational corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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