POLITICS WITH PULSES-  FARMERS LIVES AT STAKE http://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/centre-allows-import-of-pulses-despite-farmers-sitting-on-huge-stocks-118052100261_1.html Please read the article ( shared ink)     and internalize for yourself, how your own family, brothers, sisters, uncles from our farming community is suffering due to inconsistent policies, indiscriminate import of Agri produce etc resulting into huge filing of stocks at farmers level, agencies level , resulting into market glut and no signs of any recovery in near future. What a pathetic situation.    Forget for a while that you are a software engineer, high profile finance consultant etc, walk into the chapels of a farmer and understand how he is being victimized due to our Government’s urban middle class influenced policies. Farmer’s issues: In last two years I had written many blogs, reached policy makers including PMO, NITI Aayog, and ministers and presented...

AFRICAN POVERTY- WHOM TO BLAME?? Poverty in Africa- The causes The facts about poverty and its root causes do not stop our political leaders telling us how generous we are to Africa. Of how much they care about doing something about it. And of how proud they are (and we should be too) of the amount rich countries give in aid. It’s time our political leaders gave us an honest account and told us the truth about the world’s relationship with Africa. The true story of Africa’s billion dollar losses   The Global South is being drained of resources by the rest of the world and it is losing far more each year than it gains. Africa alone loses few hundred billion dollars each year to the rest of the world. This is mainly in profits made by foreign companies, tax dodging and the costs of adapting to climate change. Whilst rich countries often talk about the aid their countries give to Africa, this is in fact much less than what Africa loose each year. The idea that we are ...