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M Rajshekhar
Book Review: Ramrao, the Story of India’s Farm Crisis
29 Aug 2021
Ramrao tells us what it is like to be – financially, socially, emotionally and mentally – an Indian farmer today.
Indra Shekhar Singh
Six Months of Farmer Protests: First Vaccine Shot for Indian Democracy
26 May 2021
The farmers are fighting for the democratic rights of all citizens along with the rights of farmers. That is why they are unafraid even after strong repression.
Ravi Kaushal
Democracy is Violated When Resistance is Absent. Farmers Have Understood That: Krishna Prasad
25 May 2021
The struggle has become a pan-India movement with programmes in the past 6 months bringing together both producing classes -- workers and farmers -- close to each other, enabling them to understand…
Subodh Varma
Bharat Bandh: Farmers Get Support from Across the Country
07 Dec 2020
The Modi government is groping as it faces a determined peoples’ movement that is challenging its economic policy.
Newsclick Team
'PM, Sack Your Team on Agriculture'
12 Sep 2020
The BJP's own allies in Punjab and Haryana are opposed to the June 5 ordinances on agriculture that were promulgated without consulting states.
Tikender Singh Panwar
Migrant Workers Stuck in Quagmire
11 Jun 2020
Workers from UP, Bihar and Odisha are being contacted and are being offered bus journeys to travel back to a few cities in Punjab.
Newsclick Team
PM Modi Does Not Believe in Accountability to Media: P Sainath
11 May 2020
In his 6 years as Prime Minister of this country, Narendra Modi has not held a single open press conference where journalists are allowed to ask him questions.
Newsclick Team
Agricultural Markets See Sharp Decline in Arrivals
24 Apr 2020
Professor Vikas Rawal of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, talks about the decline in arrivals at agricultural markets or mandis across the country.
PTI
Women Are Single Largest Exclusion in India's Farmer Suicides Data: Sainath
01 Feb 2020
Terming NCRB statistics for female farmer suicides as "complete rubbish", the senior journalist said “even before the males committed suicides”, women were doing 60% of the work on the farm.
Shilpa Shaji
Farm Suicides: Under-reported Realities of Indian Women Farmers
30 Jan 2020
According to NCRB, as many as 3,53,803 farm suicides have taken place between 1995 and 2018 across the country. 85.81% of the deceased were male farmers, indicating that around 50,188 female farmers…