April 2024
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Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
After an academic year in Boston-Cambridge, X.T.M offers observations on American life: a competitive work culture, a thin late-night scene shaped by Puritan New England, and, in his view, less…
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How a small, sleepy town in Karnataka turned into the vegetable nursery of India
A ThePlate.in story on Ranebennur in Karnataka, which became India’s centre for hybrid vegetable seed production from the late 1970s and now supports about Rs 500 crore of seed output…
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Pakistan; Myths and Consequences
In a 2013 essay reposted as written, Omar Ali argues that Pakistan was insufficiently imagined before birth, that its establishment’s founding mythology proved self-destructive, and that it must be corrected…
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MS Swaminathan: architect of Green Revolution; the greatest Indian since Gandhi
The author argues that M. S. Swaminathan, architect of the Green Revolution, is the greatest Indian since Independence, having built institutions and helped 800 million people escape hunger, and says…
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West Africa’s bitter chocolate harvest is a sweet deal for farmers in south India
A teaser for a ThePlate.in story on cocoa farmers in Tamil Nadu asking whether they can benefit as global cocoa prices more than triple because of West African crop failures,…
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Modi 3 and the fruits of fiscal Tapasya
Guest writer Saiarav argues that Modi’s election-year budget broke from freebies, citing the 2019 farmer cash transfer and Congress’s welfare promises in Karnataka, and reads this as the government’s confidence…
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Modi’s fiscal masterclass
Guest writer Saiarav argues that Modi’s second term showed fiscal discipline through global turbulence without losing political capital, and explains why India has strong reasons to reduce deficits, from debt…
