Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Do you have any type of pointers for composing write-ups?
That’s where I constantly struggle and I simply wind up staring empty screen for very long time.
The very basic flaw of the article is underplaying the importance of agriculture and of the farmers dependent on agriculture. If for the sake of economy, the country would sell all the land for factories and forcing farmers to other “respectable jobs”, what will you feed to 1.4 Billion people? Bricks!!
The Article represents the true negative impacts of the land Ceiling law that drags our economy down. Marginal farming has been promoted for decades in India, removal of this archaic law will provide farmers an opportunity to grow by buying or leasing more land. Land ceiling keeps the farmers locked in a cyclical cycle of agricultural poverty which is used by politicians again and again for their own political ambition.
Anil provided a complicated solution to the problem while the real solution is very simple, abolish the land ceiling laws. The only thing that I agree with him on is the fact that in 21st century, Jobs bring progress not agriculture. If agriculture was such a fruitful career option then people would skip college and do farming, the fact is that it can barely feed a small family, add land ceiling laws on top of that and you’re stuck with few acres and a lifetime of debt + sorrows.
Here is a Solution for the government to consider:
The Government should create laws that protect the farmer’s land ownership and at the same time allow the farmer to lease his land to a farm cooperative (LIKE IN ISRAEL).
Farm cooperatives should be allowed to run like businesses.
1) They lease land from the farmer
2) Require that the cooperative hire the farmers or their family members to work on the farm as long as they meet the eligibility criteria for the work.
3) Farm Cooperatives are allowed employment with special labor laws that suit farming
This will free the small farmer from struggling to run a farm with seed, fertilizer and other expenses on loans, earn a lease each year, and be free to work at the cooperative for pay or find other employment. The farmer will find free time to live a life, relax and have time for children.
The farmers land is protected and the only risk they have is that they lose a year’s lease in case of default and their lease breaks and their farm is returned to them.
The cooperatives are run by hopefully people who understanding farming and business better. And large holdings allow for modern farming and higher profitability to pay management, labor and farmers and hopefully build a cash holding for future investments by cooperatives to purchase their own land and keep growing larger through more leases and more land holdings.
Ownership into cooperatives must be restricted to farmers who joined the cooperative and who sold farms to cooperatives.
This is the only way to keep India’s farming strong and producing food for India.
Here is the real problem:
Most farmers in India can only sustain themselves. And a few bad seasons gets them in debt forcing them to sell their farms.
The other real life problem is handing over farms to children as inheritance. The farmer in say 1950 started with a farm holding that was restricted to say 100 wighas. By 2020, that farmer is on to the third generation. If the farmer had an average of two sons (girls usually are married of and dont get a share), the farm holding gets reduced to 25 wighas.
Now with the smaller farm holding, it makes investments into good machinery more expensive per wigha. And the farmer does not earn enough to increase farm holdings. Just enough to sustain themselves. So the next generation gets 12.5 wigha and the next 7.25wigha. Depending on the quality of the land and how it is managed, it ultimately becomes impossible to live off the land.
AND THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM OF FARMERS TODAY. They dont make enough to send their children to school. And if they do, they dont find jobs unless they got into engineering or medicine or a profession with easier employment opportunities.
The article has it all wrong. I am a first generation non-farmer who holds ancestral lands that are leased out.
Land Ceiling has not prevented farmers from growing. Farmers dont invest in farming. The returns on invest are worse than holding a CD, which returns more and is guaranteed even when it rains or does not rain on the bank holding the CD. It is businessmen who invest in farms to hide their black money and rich people; politicians and Amitabh Bachaan who want farm houses for prestige.
And while the CD is earning money and growing; I can find other work.
THE PROBLEM is when the farmer cant find other employment and only labor jobs that are not as respectful as having your own farm.
Then there is the problem that only a farmer can buy a farm. And if that was repealed; farms would be owned by businessmen and politicians and government employees with their black money!
See next post on:
1) Real problem with farming
2) How it can be solved
Do you have any type of pointers for composing write-ups?
That’s where I constantly struggle and I simply wind up staring empty screen for very long time.
The very basic flaw of the article is underplaying the importance of agriculture and of the farmers dependent on agriculture. If for the sake of economy, the country would sell all the land for factories and forcing farmers to other “respectable jobs”, what will you feed to 1.4 Billion people? Bricks!!
The Article represents the true negative impacts of the land Ceiling law that drags our economy down. Marginal farming has been promoted for decades in India, removal of this archaic law will provide farmers an opportunity to grow by buying or leasing more land. Land ceiling keeps the farmers locked in a cyclical cycle of agricultural poverty which is used by politicians again and again for their own political ambition.
Anil provided a complicated solution to the problem while the real solution is very simple, abolish the land ceiling laws. The only thing that I agree with him on is the fact that in 21st century, Jobs bring progress not agriculture. If agriculture was such a fruitful career option then people would skip college and do farming, the fact is that it can barely feed a small family, add land ceiling laws on top of that and you’re stuck with few acres and a lifetime of debt + sorrows.
Here is a Solution for the government to consider:
The Government should create laws that protect the farmer’s land ownership and at the same time allow the farmer to lease his land to a farm cooperative (LIKE IN ISRAEL).
Farm cooperatives should be allowed to run like businesses.
1) They lease land from the farmer
2) Require that the cooperative hire the farmers or their family members to work on the farm as long as they meet the eligibility criteria for the work.
3) Farm Cooperatives are allowed employment with special labor laws that suit farming
This will free the small farmer from struggling to run a farm with seed, fertilizer and other expenses on loans, earn a lease each year, and be free to work at the cooperative for pay or find other employment. The farmer will find free time to live a life, relax and have time for children.
The farmers land is protected and the only risk they have is that they lose a year’s lease in case of default and their lease breaks and their farm is returned to them.
The cooperatives are run by hopefully people who understanding farming and business better. And large holdings allow for modern farming and higher profitability to pay management, labor and farmers and hopefully build a cash holding for future investments by cooperatives to purchase their own land and keep growing larger through more leases and more land holdings.
Ownership into cooperatives must be restricted to farmers who joined the cooperative and who sold farms to cooperatives.
This is the only way to keep India’s farming strong and producing food for India.
Here is the real problem:
Most farmers in India can only sustain themselves. And a few bad seasons gets them in debt forcing them to sell their farms.
The other real life problem is handing over farms to children as inheritance. The farmer in say 1950 started with a farm holding that was restricted to say 100 wighas. By 2020, that farmer is on to the third generation. If the farmer had an average of two sons (girls usually are married of and dont get a share), the farm holding gets reduced to 25 wighas.
Now with the smaller farm holding, it makes investments into good machinery more expensive per wigha. And the farmer does not earn enough to increase farm holdings. Just enough to sustain themselves. So the next generation gets 12.5 wigha and the next 7.25wigha. Depending on the quality of the land and how it is managed, it ultimately becomes impossible to live off the land.
AND THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM OF FARMERS TODAY. They dont make enough to send their children to school. And if they do, they dont find jobs unless they got into engineering or medicine or a profession with easier employment opportunities.
The article has it all wrong. I am a first generation non-farmer who holds ancestral lands that are leased out.
Land Ceiling has not prevented farmers from growing. Farmers dont invest in farming. The returns on invest are worse than holding a CD, which returns more and is guaranteed even when it rains or does not rain on the bank holding the CD. It is businessmen who invest in farms to hide their black money and rich people; politicians and Amitabh Bachaan who want farm houses for prestige.
And while the CD is earning money and growing; I can find other work.
THE PROBLEM is when the farmer cant find other employment and only labor jobs that are not as respectful as having your own farm.
Then there is the problem that only a farmer can buy a farm. And if that was repealed; farms would be owned by businessmen and politicians and government employees with their black money!
See next post on:
1) Real problem with farming
2) How it can be solved