-The Telegraph There is something heroic about tens of thousands of farmers marching and wringing concessions from a BJP state government The farmers’ rally in Delhi, the Kisan Mukti March, organised by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) happened the day after the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and just before the assembly elections in Rajasthan. The politics of the rally was different from the politics of elections but the...

-The Hindu Business Line mumbai: Onion exports have picked up on firm overseas demand even as domestic prices continue to rule low, as the new crop hits the markets in the backdrop of huge carry forward stocks. Experts attribute the pick-up in demand over the past few months to a lower global output due to changing climatic conditions. Ganpat Vaishnav, owner of Ganesh Impex, moved to exporting onions over the last three months,...

-The Telegraph Farmers' march to capital on November 29-30 to demand special session of Parliament A farmers’ organisation along with P. Sainath, the award-winning crusader for agriculturists, has been visiting college and university campuses across the country, explaining how agriculture distress affects students. The main mover behind the campus cluster meetings is the All India Kisan Sangharsh Co-ordination Committee, an umbrella organisation of 200 farmers’ outfits, which wants to sensitise students to...

-The Indian Express On November 29, farmers are scheduled to gather at four locations on the outskirts of Delhi, from where they will march into the capital city. mumbai: PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR farmers, lawyers for farmers, students for farmers and techies for farmers — these are some of a series of loose groups being formed across cities including mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune in an effort to mobilise the support of...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: “The truthfulness of the phrase violence begets violence seemed to be unfolding before our eyes.” This statement in a report of one of the inspection teams tasked with auditing 110 institutional homes in Bihar, including the one in Muzaffarpur, summed up its shock at the evidence of physical, sexual and emotional abuse unearthed across these homes. The state sponsored audit report by Koshish, Tata Insititute of...