A day before the Parliament session begins, farmers staged a show of strength in India’s financial capital of Mumbai and called for the defeat of BJP in the forthcoming Assembly elections in five states. They also urged people to defeat the BJP in the coming statewide local body elections in Maharashtra. At a massive 'Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat' held at Azad Maidan in Mumbai,
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‘Claiming their identities as farmers’: TIME honors women leading farmer protests
The report also addresses women’s contributions to farming that are overlooked as part of their household duties.
By Sruthi Vibhavari| Published: 5th March 2021 4:14 pm IST
Hyderabad: “Why should we go back? This is not just the men’s protest. We toil in the fields alongside the men. Who are we if not farmers?” asked 74-year-old Jasbir Kaur, who has been camping at the Ghazipur protest site for over three months against the Indian government’s three contentious farm laws.
Kaur is one of the many women who were honoured by the American news magazine TIME in its March edition. On its magazine cover, it featured a group of women farmers ‘on the frontlines of India’s farmer protests’ and highlighted their role in the protests, equal to that of men.
TIME magazine’s cover features women leading India’s farmer protests
Some protestors told ‘Time’ that their numbers increased after the chief justice of India said that elderly people and women should return home. Updated Mar 05, 2021 · 09:40 pm The cover of the magazine s March edition. | Twitter/TIME
Women farmers protesting against the Centre’s three agricultural laws at Delhi’s borders for over three months have featured on the international cover of
Time magazine’s March edition. The magazine tweeted the cover story on Friday, a day before the protest enters its 100th day.
“This law will kill us, will destroy what little we have,” Amandeep Kaur, a farmer from Talwandi in Punjab, told the magazine. Punjab Kisan Union member Jasbir Kaur Nat, who is mobilising farmers at the Tikri protest site, said women are often not seen as farmers. “Their labor is immense but invisible. Women are changing women here. They are claiming t