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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The Indian Farmer is Protesting About Much More Than Loan Waivers -Gopalkrishna Gandhi

The Indian Farmer is Protesting About Much More Than Loan Waivers -Gopalkrishna Gandhi

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published Published on Jun 12, 2017   modified Modified on Jun 12, 2017
-TheWire.in

It is about agriculture’s place in the life our country, equity’s place in the life of our agriculture, and farmers’ place in the world of equity.

P. Sainath has to be crazy.

Or all those who read him, hear him and do nothing about what he is writing, saying, doing, have to be crazy.

He says of the Indian drought : ‘Drought horribly exacerbates misery. It adds cruelly to the crisis. It is not the cause of it. There has been deep rural distress in good monsoon years as well. Our crisis is driven by human agency, drought is that awful last straw on the agrarian back. Farmers have dealt with drought through history – today, they’re incredibly more vulnerable to it.’

Drought is accompanied by a shadow: callousness in the human agency.

The wealthy classes of the Page 3 type and the upwardly mobile middle classes are hardly hurt by drought. Hardly or not at all. They can in fact even feel good, for droughts jerk charity, generate work at the ravaged sites so that immediate hunger and thirst are alleviated. Down and out? Look at me, I am giving you a leg up! Rise and shine. So he says everybody loves a good drought. Sainath has to be crazy.

When was his book Everybody Loves A Good Drought published?

One hell of a long time ago?

Not too wrong.

Twenty years ago, in 1997.

This year is its twentieth anniversary.

Sainath was a year short of 40 then and was already known for his work in Russi Karanjia’s provocative Bombay tabloid, Blitz. He was what Blitz’s banner claimed for itself: Free, Frank, Fearless. Blitz stayed throughout its career a magazine by the city of the city and for the city. Its writers, readers were urban, its pulse throbbed radically but in spasms of metal, urban metal. Sainath was not from the villages either. Born in Madras, educated in that city and in New Delhi, he was a city-zen. But in some inexplicable switch of genetic magnets he thought gaon, felt dehat, and wanted to write facts, gramin facts. That is, facts and not stories not about the ‘top 5%’ who were dominating media but the ‘last 5%’ who seemed to exist only for Premchand pre-independence and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, post. This was contrarian and even more ironically, helping him with a scholarship to study those facts was that mega metro Moghul, The Times of India.

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TheWire.in, 12 June, 2017, https://thewire.in/146200/farmers-protest-drought-loan-agriculture-maharashtra-mp/


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