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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jaideep Hardikar gives an intimate account of India’s farm crisis -Manu Moudgil

Jaideep Hardikar gives an intimate account of India’s farm crisis -Manu Moudgil

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published Published on Oct 24, 2021   modified Modified on Oct 24, 2021

-The Tribune

A farmer ends his life every 30 minutes in India. There are some who don’t end up in this pile of statistics and are saved through timely action of family and friends. Ramrao Panchleniwar, a cotton grower in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region, is one such survivor. He wished to drown his financial worries in two bottles of insecticide in 2014. In this book titled after him, Ramrao’s life and near-death experience is the central point around which journalist Jaideep Hardikar illustrates India’s unending farm crisis.

Hardikar uses his two-decade experience of reporting on rural affairs to connect the everyday life of Ramrao to policy decisions, workings of market economy and climate crisis. “Every year, an insidious new factor is added to the list of old reasons, compounding the problem of the peasantry,” he puts succinctly. Liberalisation, loan waivers, unchecked sale of spurious agro chemicals, demonetisation, pest attacks, all leave a mark on Ramrao, who is also battling personal losses. The suicide bid leaves him broken until inspiration is found in a new tragedy. Though there is no hope of being debt-free, he is determined to put up a good fight.

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The Tribune, 24 October, 2021, https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/book%20reviews/jaideep-hardikar-gives-an-intimate-account-of-indias-farm-crisis-328776


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