today’s et (PDF ETD_2014_08_19 why rising food prices could be here to stay) carries this story on the reasons for the persistent food inflation india is seeing since 2006. chalk it up to, i say, rising cost of cultivation, the concurrent rise of political control over mandis and the deepening of cartelisation there, and demand side changes (which range from changing diets to the falling rupee to supply shocks that our government inevitably fails to respond to).
I am an Indian journalist with interests in energy, environment, climate and India’s ongoing slide into right-wing authoritarianism. My book, Despite the State, an examination of pervasive state failure and democratic decay in India, was published by Westland Publications, India, in January 2021. My work has won the Bala Kailasam Memorial Award; the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award; five Shriram Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism; and, more recently, been a finalist at the True Story Award and GIJN’s Global Shining Light Awards. Write to me at despitethestate@protonmail.com.
“Westland closure: Titles that are selling fast and a few personal recommendations,” by Chetana Divya Vasudev, Moneycontrol. (Because this happened too. In February, a year after DtS was released, Amazon decided to shutter Westland, which published the book. The announcement saw folks rushing to buy copies of Westland books before stocks run out.)
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