-ThePrint.in The Gaon Connection survey suggests that the govt and media would live in denial if they see farmers’ protests as a rebellion of the entitled. Is farming profitable?” Now, take a guess: from which part of India do you expect to hear a ‘yes’ to this question? I bet you would say, Punjab and Haryana, followed by Maharashtra and other western states. South might come after that. And you would expect...
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Punjab farmers have fed country since the Green Revolution, now it must stand by us -Raakhi Jagga
-The Indian Express Participating in indefinite dharnas at petrol pumps, near toll plazas, even on rail tracks, elderly farmers tell The Indian Express that age is just a number. A 94-year-old farmer leader cycles 5 km to reach the dharna spot, an 83-year-old says, ‘looking at our united struggle…I think, I will live more’. Their wrinkled faces bear scars of decades spent toiling on fields, but the zeal is intact. Participating in...
More »Hathras gangrape: ‘We are Dalits, that’s our sin… We want our children to leave’ -Jignasa Sinha
-The Indian Express The 19-year-old’s mother says that none of their neighbours, most of them Thakurs and Brahmins, had paid a visit to offer condolences. “We collect fodder from their farms. We thought they would come at least once." Every time he goes to the local store, the 50-year-old says, the shopkeeper tells him to stand at a distance and chucks what he has purchased. Upper castes abusing them is so common...
More »Three Farm Bills and India’s Rural Economy -Vijay Jawandhiya and Ajay Dandekar
-TheWire.in With low levels of farmers' income and a lack of assured price mechanism, what impact will the three farm bills have in the long term on India's agrarian economy. Here's an analysis. Last week, the Union government passed three bills to replace the three ordinances that were enacted during the COVID-19 lockdown. These three bills, expected to bring revolutionary changes to agrarian context and help double farmers’ incomes are: The Farmers’...
More »When 2 Kerala farmers took on Adani Group and won a legal battle -Shahina KK
-TheFederal.com On April 15, 2009, farmers Rajan and PP Baby were surprised to see hundreds of trucks unloading sand in a field adjacent to their land in Kizhakkambalam in Ernakulam district of Kerala, an eastern suburb of Kochi. But the two, who also happened to be CPI(M) activists, were busy with the Lok Sabha elections that were being held in the state the next day and unable to look into the...
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