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Sagrika Kissu
Farm Laws: Thousands of Women Farmers and Labourers Heading to Delhi on Womens’ Day
06 Mar 2021
‘Aurat Ghar ki bhi Ghulam hai, aur desh ki bhi ghulam hai. Iss Ghulami se hamari ladai hai.’
Navpreet Kaur
Farmers' Struggle and Women’s Participation
28 Feb 2021
Given that women have had lower mobility, even in terms of employment, due to the manner in which social constraints unequally impinge on them, their participation in the farm protests now may be…
Sagrika Kissu
Punjab’s Farm Labourers Intensify Anti-Farm Laws Protests on Kisan-Mazdoor Diwas
27 Feb 2021
At the Punjab protest sites, Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union has given an important call for a state level rally on March 15
Sumedha Pal
‘We Aren’t Middlemen, Govt Using Farm Laws to Erase Us’: Punjab’s Arthiyas
23 Feb 2021
Arthiyas or commissioning agents play an indispensable role in the agricultural economy and they fear the government wants to replace them with private businesses through the laws.
Ronak Chhabra
Farm Laws: With Harvesting Season Here, Focus Shifts on Youth, Workers to Keep Delhi Morchas Running
22 Feb 2021
The wheat harvesting period arrives within a few weeks, if not days. It will make it necessary for a section of protesting farmers, if not all, to report back to their villages.
Rhea Binoy
Effect of Farmers’ Protest: Jio Loses Subscribers in Punjab and Haryana
20 Feb 2021
In Punjab, as of the end of December, Jio had 1.25 crore users, the lowest in the intervening 18 months, down from 1.40 crore as of November 2020.
PTI
Congress Sweeps Municipal Corporation Polls in Punjab
17 Feb 2021
The party won in Bathinda, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Abohar, Batala and Pathankot in civic polls held against the backdrop of the farmers’ agitation against the Farm Laws.
Saurabh Sharma
Farm Laws: Once ‘Invisible’, Women are Now the Spine Holding the Protests’ Together
13 Feb 2021
‘If we can bear childbirth pain, this burden of extra work is nothing’, say women, who are handling home, hearth and farming in Western UP, Punjab and Haryana, as menfolk are away in Delhi.
Newsclick Report
MEA Defends Farm Laws Amid International Backlash
03 Feb 2021
Notably, the government also added the hashtags #IndiaTogether and #IndiaAgainstPropaganda in its press release, presumably to kick-start a ‘local for vocal’ counter to backlash from the…
Ajaz Ashraf
Feminist Navsharan Singh on why State Fears Women Protesters in Farmer Movement
03 Feb 2021
Women are asserting their claim to the public and the Republic, as they did in the anti-CAA protests.