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NCRB 2016 data: Delayed NCRB report, added categories don't take away from grim reality of farmer suicides
Meena Menon • 5 years agoThe death of so many farmers in the country, now close to 3.5 lakh, has not led to radical policy changes to revitalise the agriculture sector. The farmer is once again caught in the grip of uncertain rains and debt, with little hope on the horizon. And the suicides continue, even if the NCRB introduces new categories and delays its own reports.
Aparna Karthikeyan's Nine Rupees An Hour documents dying livelihoods amid considerations of caste, gender
Aishwaryasahasrabudhe • 5 years agoIn Aparna Karthikeyan's Nine Rupees An Hour, one can find the vestiges of dwindling livelihoods and a dying culture narrated in the voices of the rural populace engaged in these age-old artisanal occupations.
Invisible Women, Visible Work: P Sainath's photos document the labour and lives of Indian rural women
Kavitha Muralidharan • 6 years agoThe exhibition, documenting the ‘astonishing labour that poor women put in every day of their lives and the gigantic – yet unacknowledged – contribution they make to national economy’ was first inaugurated in the winter of 2002 at a conference of All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) in Visakhapatnam.
Farmers' protest in Delhi: Cultivators march to Ramlila Maidan to demand special session of Parliament
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThousands of farmers staged a rally in Delhi to protest to demand better Minimum Support Price and loan waivers.
Farmers' protest in New Delhi: Cultivators from across India ready for march to Parliament to highlight agrarian crisis
Kangkan Acharyya • 6 years agoUnder the All India Kisan Sangharsh Samanvay Committee, thousands of farmers will be marching to the Parliament of India on Friday.
AIKSCC to organise farmers' march to Delhi from 28 Nov: Proposed agitation reflects neglect of agriculture over past decades
Hema Vaishnavi • 6 years agoThe AIKSCC — a coalition of about 200 farmers’ organisations from across India — is organising a march of farmers to Delhi — the Kisan Mukti March, later this month.
P Sainath continues to illuminate stories from the India the mainstream press forgot
Devanshsharma • 8 years ago'Between cynical pessimism and blind optimism, there exists a wide stretch called hope. I live there,' says veteran journalist P Sainath
Farmers' strike: Loan waiver not a solution; Mandsaur violence manifestation of larger crisis, says P Sainath
Fp Staff • 8 years agoThe issue of loan waiver should not be assessed by the Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra episodes of the last couple of days since there are far bigger issues in Indian agriculture, journalist P Sainath said in a live stream on Sunday.
Demonetisation: Nearly 50 people dead, but Modi govt views it as 'minor' inconvenience
Anshu Lal • 8 years agoAt least 33 people have died because of demonetisation. But the Modi government is comparing the people's problems to child birth.
Money, Politics and Crime: Uncovering the vicious triangle that plagues the Indian polity
Ambsahay • 9 years agoPolitics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.