Articles by Jaydev Jana

Indian agriculture has an image problem. There is decreasing interest among educated rural youth to enter agriculture-related professions due to the persistent perception of agriculture as an outdated occupation with minimal financial returns.

This is with reference to “Living Conditions of Tea Plantation Workers” by Sharit K Bhowmik (EPW, 21 November 2015). Indeed, it is a cruel irony that, on the one hand, starvation deaths are reported in India, and on the other, we have abundant foodgrains.

This is with reference to the incisive article, "Agrarian Performance and Food Price Inflation in India" by Sthanu R Nair and Leena Mary Eapen (EPW, 1 August 2015). Sometimes the higher rate of food price inflation is accepted as an inevitable consequence of rapid economic growth.

With reference to your editorial, “The Noodle Muddle” (EPW, 20 June 2015), the rapid development of food processing technologies and the advent of the Green Revolution opened up, wittingly or unwittingly, avenues for contamination of our food with thousand types of exogenous chemicals called food

This is with reference to the brilliantly written article “Khadi Production in India” by Sumanas Koulagi (EPW, 11 April 2015). Bernard Shaw had once remarked that though Mahatma Gandhi could commit any number of tactical errors, his essential strategy continued to be right.