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Business Standard has written a piece challenging the data on farmer suicides from Uttar Pradesh titled “As farmers commit suicide, Uttar Pradesh hides their deaths”. It is a pretty good […]
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Recently in Wardha and Yavatmal (Vidarbha, Maharashtra) Moreshwar Chaudhary was 32; Suraj Bhoyar, 29. On a wintry December 8, last, the two cotton growers consumed Monocrotophous, a commonly used pesticide,
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On one hand, we have glowing reports of the growth in agriculture, particularly horticulture. On the other, we have “Rural wage growth lowest in 10 years, signals farm distress, falling
What is going on in agriculture? Read More »
Vidarbha is the latest to fall to BJP’s “con for vote” schemes. BJP Maharashtra has been campaigning with a promise of a separate state for Vidarbha if it comes to
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Before the dust settled on the sniggering at the unabashed fan worship of Narendra Modi in what was supposed to be an interview by the supposedly sharp Rajat Sharma, news
Senior Journalist, Editorial Director at India TV resigns over Modi’s fixed interview Read More »
One should never underestimate the power of denial. Modi suporters are comparing Gujarat with Maharashtra (unbeaten champ of farmer suicides) and claiming that Gujarat does not have a problem. Wait
Farmer distress in Gujarat. Farmer suicides and more. Read More »
There is a category of journalists and publications which consistently publish seemingly scientific articles that are aimed at one or more of the following goals: Trivializing the problem of farmer
Farmer suicides in India: Peddling anti-farmer bull shit Read More »
The scent of the earth… the title deed The life of a man… and futile need The freedom to be… in silly glee And the weight of the smallest deed.
Cognitive dissonance Read More »
Increasing privatization of necessities means citizens are forced to make purchases from private entities that are opaque to scrutiny and unaccountable to people. It is a permanent profit.
