Freedom vs Technology

Ethics, principles and values that guide ordinary people to do extraordinary work in eternal India

-  RAMASUBRAMANIAN O.B.

“We are happy Madam!" said a smiling farmer V to the visiting agricultural professor, as he stood along with his wife in the middle of a brinjal patch on his 2-acre family land. They were in work clothes and it was evident that they had worked long hours in the field. The pride and happiness at having another group of visitors at his successful field, was visible on his face. 

The professor was part of a delegation that had been sent from the neighbouring state to understand the practice and benefits of nonchemical farming. Agricultural university professors from one state, visiting small and marginal farmers in another state is no common occurrence; it had taken a visionary bureaucrat and a co-operative Vice Chancellor to ensure that it happened. One of the visiting professors was into developing new varieties of hybrid seeds and, like everyone else in the group, was impressed by farmer V's confidence and knowledge as he explained the amazing transformation that had come about when they switched from synthetic chemicals to natural farming practices.