E D I T O R I A L
Diversification Debate
THE drumming and the big noise to tell the farmers in Punjab to diversify their cropping rotation from wheat and paddy to who knows what shows at one level a clumsy attempt to wish away the deepening agrarian crisis and at  another  level it demonstrates paucity of ideas and make alternative choices. More

F O C U S
Wheat and Paddy Rotation is the Optimal Cropping Pattern for Punjab
Professor H. S. Shergill
A massive reduction in area under wheat and paddy was strongly recommended in 1986 in the first diversification report. But farmers have expanded area under paddy by about 10 lakh hectares and under wheat by about 4 lakh hectares since then. More

Crop Diversification: Prime Need of Punjab
Dr. Joginder Singh
THE economic forces emerging from agro-climatic conditions of the state, evolution of high yielding varieties, market infrastructure, remunerative support price etc. favoured large scale cultivation of wheat and rice in Punjab. More

Farms on Fire: jado jatt de khet nu ag legi
Gobind Thukral
WAS there any surprise when a “highly experienced” union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar declared in parliament that the government of India had no reports of farmers committing suicides in Punjab? More

E N V I R O N M E N T
Pesticide Threaten life in Punjab
Umendra Dutt
KHETI Virasat Mission, a respected organisation in the field of environment protection found Salkiana village in Jalandhar district. To be worst affected by pollution. Its team visited the village on 21 July 2006 and severe suffocation and breathlessness. More

C O M M E N T
Gulzar Cheema stays with the Liberals
Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver
THE former BC Minister, Dr. Gulzar Cheema has dropped the idea of joining the ruling Conservative Party of Canada. Following a sharp criticism from the Indo Canadian community, he has decided not to shift his loyalty from the Federal Liberal Party to the Tories. More

Honour for Gursharan Singh in Canada
Gurpreet singh reports from Surrey
A progressive theatre personality, Gursharan Singh was honoured by the Chetna Association in Surrey. The Association held a very small function, where Gursharan Singh was honoured for his position on human rights and his contribution to the progressive theatre. More

A N A L Y S I S
Some Peace in a Devastated Lebanon
As a ceasefire went into effect on August 14 between Israel and Hezbollah and a tense calm descended on the region, ordinary people both Lebanon and Israeli were wondering whether the truce would hold, and were beginning to ask questions about what Israel and Hezbollah have gained -- or lost -- during the 33 days of fighting. More

America and England abet Israel to go berserk in Lebanon
CIVIL liberties organisations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Organisation [HRO] are not the only ones along with Un Secretary General Kofi Anan who have condemned the Israeli invasion of Lennon and its ruthless indiscriminate attacks on children, women and innocent civilians and what the US and its allies called collateral damage. More

Moderates shake hands with Fundamentalists
Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver
THE temple politics is no different from the other politics when it comes to opportunism and power struggle. After fighting with the fundamentalists for years, the moderate Sikhs have now become their friends. More

L A W  &  J U S T I C E
Apathy of a rape victim
Joginder Singh Toor
During World Women's Conference held in China, rain continued pouring for all the days. Most of the programmes were adversely affected. On the concluding day, a delegate, when asked by the press to comment, said "God must be male". More

F E A T U R E S
The Lost Childhood
The Children of Lesser God
Gobind Thukral
IN one of India’s best known cities, fondly called by its citizens, as the City Beautiful, one often comes across on the busy road crossings small children, who have perhaps never washed or bathed with and their bodies covered with smoke. More

L I T E R A T U R E
Buttar’s Verse Questionnaire – A New Experiment
Dr. Jaspal Singh
After Kharhawan (Wooden Sandals) in 2001, Dard Majithi is the fifth collection of poems by Darshan Buttar, a sensitive Punjabi poet from Nabha. His collection is a new experiment in Punjabi poetry as all the seven dozens of poems are in the interrogative form and more often than not they are rhetorical questions which require no explicit answers. More

Broken Chains of Guantanamo Bay: Journalists tell a Tale of Torture
THE patently illegal prison without the sanctions of any American or international law where hundreds of detainees, young and old have suffered years of torture and humiliation forcing some to commit to suicides is still an untold story. More

M E D I A
Magsaysay Award:  Will it help the Public get Information?
AT a time  when the Indian government  seems to be determined to take life out of the Right to Information Act through several amendments, Arvind Kejriwal, head of an Indian citizen's movement called Parivartan, has been won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award. More

D O C U M E N T
Indian Scientists Worry about U S India Nuclear Deal
India’s eight top eight top nuclear scientists, including three former chairmen of the Atomic Energy Commission Concerned by the legislative shape the India-U.S. nuclear agreement is taking in Washington, has called on Parliament to take a "unanimous decision" rejecting any "restraint in perpetuity" on the country's freedom of action or research capabilities in the nuclear field. More

L E T T E R S
THIS has reference to professor Manjit singh’ comments in his letter in the 20th edition of the www.southasaipost.org. More

 

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