Uday Kumar Saw

Jan 21, 2025 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Vikas Meshram |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Uday Kumar Saw

Patha,  the plateau  area of Chitrakut district in Uttar Pradesh, is an area that has been often in news due to water scarcity. When I visited this area over four decades back at the time of a severe drought there was extreme distress in the widely scattered hamlets of weaker sections, and it was clear that an ambitious and expensive project with generous foreign aid had failed to provide much needed relief from thirst and water scarcity.

Jan 14, 2025 | countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Bharat Dogra |Uday Kumar Saw |Soma Marla

The roots of the agricultural crisis in India lie in a variety of factors that collectively make the situation more challenging for the country’s farmers. Despite agriculture being the backbone of the Indian economy, it often receives inadequate attention. The issues in agriculture are not merely short-term but have long-term implications as well. Over the past three decades, neoliberal policies have accelerated this crisis. India’s agricultural sector is currently undergoing a significant crisis.

Dec 10, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Uday Kumar Saw |zeenat khan |Khairi Janbek

Bhanwarpur village located in Naraini block of Banda district, UP, has a dalit hamlet of about 100 households. Till about 25 years back the situation of the village was such that most of the workers here were toiling in bonded type conditions. While land pattas had been allotted in the name of most households, due to their weaker and vulnerable position they had not been able to gain occupation of this land and cultivate it.