Geopolitics
India's Choking Paradox: How the Green Revolution's Legacy Strangles Our Future
The article explains that India's current agricultural policy framework, a legacy of the Green Revolution focused on food security and productivity, has caused severe environmental crises including catastrophic air pollution from stubble burning, soil degradation, and groundwater depletion, and is legally isolated from environmental regulation. It is a damning indictment of how post-colonial development, while achieving its initial goal of feeding a nation, has created a self-inflicted ecological catastrophe that now threatens the very survival and health of millions of Indians, a tragic consequence of treating our land as an infinite resource to be exploited rather than a mother to be nurtured.
