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‘Deleting Darwinism’: Influential Indian nationalist calls for rejection of evolution, turns towards Hindu creationism

Aravindan Neelakandan | Swarajya | 
Magazine Organiser carried article arguing in favour of the ‘logic of deleting Darwinism’ and ‘Intelligent Design' ...
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India’s pro-GMO cotton farmers make case for relaxed biotech crop rules to prime minister

M R Subramani | Swarajya | 
Farmers who want to grow GM crops have met senior ministers of the [federal] government to represent their case. A ...
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Viewpoint: Monsanto GMO Bt cotton patent case ‘shows socialism’s hold on Indian politics’

Shanthu Shantharam | Swarajya | 
The Delhi High Court has just decreed that Monsanto cannot claim any intellectual property right (IPR) over its Bt cotton ...
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Viewpoint: Forcing Monsanto out of India could have serious consequences for cotton farmers

Shrikrishna Umrikar | Swarajya | 
[T]hose who advocate swadeshi tend to forget that the Bt seeds patented by Monsanto were responsible for doubling the yield of cotton ...
Why hasn't India embraced GM food as it did Green Revolution technologies?

Why hasn’t India embraced GM food as it did Green Revolution technologies?

Vivian Fernandes | Swarajya | 
[Editor's note: Vivian Fernandes is editor of Smart Indian Agriculture, a website devoted to promoting modern practices in agriculture including use ...

Second Green Revolution in India depends on well-tested GMO crops

Swarajya | 
As a part of its strategy to bring a Second Green Revolution, India must return to permitting... well-tested GM technologies ...

Regulation, not domestic capability, stifles biotechnology in India

Vivian Fernandes | Swarajya | 
 In this interview, [K.K. Narayanan, one of the Founder-Directors of Metahelix Life Sciences] speaks about the arduous but persistent ...

Regulatory uncertainty strangling India’s domestic development of agricultural biotech

Vivian Fernandes | Swarajya | 
. . . . There are very few companies in India engaged in genetic engineering to improve the yields of crops ...

Who is best qualified to regulate gene editing?

Shanthu Shantharam | Swarajya | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. No other technology like ...

India needs well tested, domestically sourced GMOs for second green revolution

Swarajya | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . India ...

Phenomenol success of Bt cotton in India makes case for GMOs in developing world

Ashok Chowgule | Swarajya | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How has the cotton ...
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