From Plate to Plough: A farm question for Modi 2.0 | The Indian Express

From Plate to Plough: A farm question for Modi 2.0 | The Indian Express

Written by Ashok Gulati |Updated: June 24, 2019 4:03:50 am

The writer is chair professor for agriculture at ICRIER. Views are personal

From Plate to Plough: A farm question for Modi 2.0

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HT Bt cotton is not legally allowed by GoI. But the government’s own committee has estimated that it is being planted on about 15-17 per cent of the cotton area. (Illustration by Suvajit dey)

The word satyagraha, meaning polite insistence for truth, is associated with the political movements of Mahatma Gandhi for civil rights — first in South Africa and, later, in India. The famous 24-day Dandi March (also known as the Salt March), a non-violent civil disobedience act against the British monopoly on salt in 1930, became a symbol of satyagraha.