Farmer suicides - I fail at finding the point from where to begin on the topic. Countless newspaper columns, editorials and news hour debates have been constantly raising the alarm bells and rotating around the rising number of farmer suicides in India. Farmer suicides have become a part of everyday parlance and so common an occurrence that it fails to ascertain the gravity of … [Read more...]
120 farmers committed suicide last month in Maharashtra, here is an answer to what possibly is going wrong
There perhaps could be no better way to divert Government’s attention to ‘their’ plight than suicide, well so they thought. We have grown up with stories of farmers committing suicides that are in abject poverty and are not able to pay debts (The much celebrated, glossy celluloid imagery of “Mother India” rubbed in the fact of feudal lords and debt-ridden farmer suicides with … [Read more...]