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So Richie Rich? Have Another One On Us -p sainath

-Outlook Corporate karza maafi reaches new heights, social spending new lows This year's budget write-off in customs duty on gold, diamonds and jewellery (all aam aadmi items, of course) is Rs 75,592 crore. That's well over twice the "record" amount allocated to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. As Prof Jayati Ghosh points out, the MNREGA has given billions of person-days of work to tens of millions of poor...

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Farmers’ Suicides and Fatal Politics -Vasanthi Srinivasan

-Kafila.org With depressing regularity, the newspapers have been reporting farmers' suicides in many states. Recently, p sainath wrote on BBC that around 296,438 farmers have committed suicide since 1995. He also mentions that cash crop cultivators of cotton, sugar cane, vanilla, pepper, groundnut etc account for the bulk of those suicides. According to a PIL heard by the Supreme Court in December 2014, around 3146 farmers in Maharashtra have committed suicide...

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Rural India gets a new voice -Urvashi Sarkar

-The Hoot Veteran reporter P. Sainath launches a new platform to portray rural India in all its complexity. A new development in journalism -- the launch of the People's Archive of Rural India (PARI) -- is looking to redefine the contours of the profession as understood and practiced. The brainchild of veteran rural affairs reporter, P. Sainath, PARI, with its focus on rural India's concerns, marks a significant shift in the tide...

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