A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi
Imagine a democratic protest where a million farmers, labourers and others march to the capital and compel discussion of the exploding crisis of the countryside in a special three-week session …
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Data on farmers and intro on issues with agriculture in India #JaiKisan
Here are some points that give a broad overview of farmers in India as statistics and other data based information. How many farmers are there in India? Depends on what …
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Extortion of inflated loans from farmers during #demonetisation
The Osmanabad District Cooperative Bank Ltd, has started sending notices to farmers with outstanding loans asking them to repay the loans or the bank would take socially humiliating measures against them. So far over 30 farmers in Nagur alone have received these notices; in the Lohara taluka, over 1000 farmers. The notices are dated 14th October 2016, however the farmers claim that they received them on the 23rd November 2016 (the notices are likely backdated, essentially rendering the one month notice meaningless). The farmers have been informed that unless the loans are repaid, they will begin to face recovery process in December.
A History of, and Response to, Disproportionate Violence
This post began life as an attempt to boost the response to the latest wave of targeted violence and/or State-sponsored suppression of civil liberties in Chhattisgarh. Even as I typed …
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Multiple loans and a long summer ahead
Sheela Rathod was the first to consume a bottle of weedicide in their home. An hour later, as she was being rushed to a government hospital, her husband Mohan, consumed …
kavitha, a story of hope and despair
I met kavitha during my visit to Pandharkawada village, Yavatmal district, Vidarbha This is the story of Kavitha, who is a mother, a babhi, a daughter, a wife, a homemaker, …
A world apart
Vidarbha Diaries – It’s a world apart At 20, we worry about exams. At 20, they worry about raising the kids, earning livelihood, taking care of their family – just …
We are with you (Vidarbha Fund raising goal achieved)
and we have done it – together we raised 10 lakhs and in fact more (10,41,443.00) and its still going strong. We had contributions from people belonging to different parts …
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Interest free loans for Vidarbha Farmers
The ongoing project to help the Vidarbha farmers has reached its third phase. The third phase will focus on building a fund which will be used to provide interest free loans …