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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why the farmers want to march again -Rishi Majumder

Why the farmers want to march again -Rishi Majumder

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published Published on Nov 20, 2018   modified Modified on Nov 20, 2018
-The Telegraph

1 lakh farmers and farm labourers plan to march towards Parliament on November 30. But what do they want?

Mumbai:
We, who are not farmers, tend to think of farmers as a catch-all word. A word that signifies to us a people who work to cultivate something. I have no idea why. I can never see ‘journalists’, for instance, as a catch-all word, even if some others do. This is because I have been a journalist and having seen journalists up close can testify that there are no two journalists I know who are alike. Farmers are like that.

There are farmers’ movements, farmers’ markets and farmers’ issues. This seems to unify them, but it also dehumanises them by a collective othering.

For "us", it creates a "them". Farmers may not be "us". But they aren’t "them" either.

This became apparent to me when I spoke to 24-year-old Shankar Uttam Guhadi at the Farmer’s Rights Convention organised by the All India Kisan Sabha at the Yashwantrao Chavan Centre in Mumbai on November 12.

Guhadi is from Jamrun Andh in the Hingoli district in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad division.

He lives on land bordering a jungle where he and his fellow villagers have been farming for several generations. Yet the government refuses to give them title deeds for the land.

Guhadi, in a white shirt with a fading grey mosaic printed on it and a white cloth that has an ornate but similarly faded border draped around his neck, tries to talk to me in Marathi, then broken Hindi, then holds up several documents that he has amassed to prove his and his family’s claim over the land.

His village elders follow suit. It is a paper trail from the government that they cling on to dearly, hoping these documents will one day lead them to their own land.

There are over 5,000 farmers and agricultural labourers from 23 districts of Maharashtra at this convention.

Those who could not fit into the main hall had been accommodated in two other halls with a screen. Still others could not find a place in either. They were sitting in the porch and lawns, listening in to what was being said on an old but loud speaker.

Many of those present participated in the march eight months ago when around 25,000 farmers and agricultural labourers began walking in Nashik on March 6. Six days and nearly 200 km later, the march ended in Mumbai with over 50,000 participants. The march took not just Mumbai, but India and the national media by storm.

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The Telegraph, 19 November, 2018, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/why-the-farmers-want-to-march-again/cid/1675828?ref=features_home-template


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