dissent & protest Archives

Subhash Palekar receives the Padma Shri in 2016

The Indian Express

ALTERNATIVES

Budget & Zero Budget Farming: A response to Subhash Palekar

15th August 2019

Influential natural farming advocate Subhash Palekar recently approved the use of Genetically Modified crops in his well-known “Zero Budget Natural Farming-ZBNF” method. In an equally startling interview, he described organic farming as “worse than the atom bomb.” Here, two veteran practitioners respond to Palekar, while reviewing the history of the Organic/Natural Farming movement in India….

Education/Awareness

Obituary: P.M. Bhargava: Man of science who never bowed down to authority

2nd August 2017

From The Indian Express: One of the most outstanding biological scientists in India and the founder director of CSIR-Centre for Cellular Molecular Biology (CCMB), Pushpa Mitra Bhargava was a perennial and powerful dissenter and never bowed down to authority. He was suffering from multiple health problems. He is survived by a son and a daughter….