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I came to Goa in 1977, after having lived half of my then life in the industrialised city of Mumbai (located on the west coast of India). At that time Goa – 600 km below Mumbai on the same coast – was not a place that could be located on any tourist map and neither […]
In a world characterised by obscene levels of poverty and deprivation, intense and widespread environmental devastation, torture of millions of innocent animals in the name of the food industry and science, and brutal uncivilised wars, most people, most ordinary people, try to count the blessings that remain. There are so few left in any case.
(The Select Committee of the Rajya Sabha is dealing with the proposed Amendments to the Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation Act, 1957. The Amendments have been issued as an ordinance on 12 January 2015. The MMDR Amendment Bill 2015, which incorporates the provisions of the ordinance, has been passed by the Lok Sabha. This […]
As funerals go, you may say I am biased in favour of this one. Domnic Pereira – tiatrist, activist, householder – was laid to rest in the small cemetery of Tiracol village by an overwhelming crowd of over one thousand mourners.
Knowledge systems are inextricably linked with culture, that is why there are so many of them. Within the vast framework of India itself, there are multiple cultures, hence various knowledge systems, each valid in its own right, each with its own set of assumptions. Assumptions by definition are, well, assumptions. We cannot test them as […]
The undoubted and perhaps unintended – or unforeseen – ill-effects associated with the conventional green revolution package of practices has compelled both farmers and governments to look more favourably at organic farming, which appears unassociated with any of these deadly impacts. Similarly, critical evaluation of aspects of “modern” agriculture – particularly its costs and its […]
This interview, conducted by Joachim Fernandes of the Times of India, Goa, appears to have struck a chord in many: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/The-period-of-giving-leases-for-free-is-over/articleshow/34083393.cms
Vishram Gupta, noted writer and social activist, conducted this interview with me for publication in the Marathi Lokmat. The interview appeared in Lokmat on 9 and 10 April, 2014. Since this is an election time, do you think the closure of mining operation will impact the forthcoming elections in Goa in one way or the […]
Those who wish to read the text of the interview I gave to The Herald Goa on Goa mining issues, can download the interview as a pdf file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6179856/Interview%20with%20Claude%20on%20mining%201632014-md-hr-23.pdf
The story of how India’s organic farming movement started – and grew – till its significance became so overpowering that even the Central Government was forced to get involved – has not really been told. I don’t however intend to tell it here, because of the brief time available. But I will provide in an […]