Category: Social change

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Sketches Of The Green Revolution – Part II

A study in four parts of the human impact of the new seeds and methods of cultivation in Ghungrali-Rajputan, a prosperous farming village on the Punjab Plain in Northwest India Part Two: The Seeds Of ChangeGreen Revolution Everyone said Basant Singh, the richest farmer in

Sketches Of The Green Revolution – Part I

A Study of the Human Impact of the New Seeds and Methods of Cultivation in Ghungrali-Rajputan, a Prosperous Village on the Punjab Plain in Northwest India Part One: Charan     As a team of oxen are we drivenBy the ploughman, our teacherBy the furrows

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New Caledonia: French Forever?

Honolulu   March 25, 1970   It is Noumea, the capital of French New Caledonia. A small, bright, and very black Solomon Islander, in town for the South Pacific Commission meeting, shivers in the chill night air despite his unaccustomed suit. “You know what I

Fiji: The Crossroads II

Honolulu   February 28, 1970   For the British, Fiji has become the white man’s burden with a vengeance, an unprofitable colonial remnant, a disturbing trust that must be honored yet brought to an uneasy independence as the once great power cut its role East

India Revisited

New Delhi   February 15, 1970   Pick your step carefully down a crushed cinder path bordered with pink rosebushes that somehow survive the cold north India winter. A patch of sparse green lawn and bare sandstone platform set into a desiccated plain, sunny, brown