How a women-led bilingual publication reports on the Indian farmers’ protests
Sangeet Toor, co-founder of ‘Karti Darthi’, explains how she and her colleagues hope to spread political awareness beyond the current crisis
Women farmers protest on International Women s Day at Bahadurgar, India. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Raksha Kumar
For close to four months now, farmers from the agrarian states of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh have camped on the borders of Delhi. They are protesting three farm laws hastily passed by the Indian government in September 2020.
Farm unions are demanding a repeal of the laws. They claim they will affect their livelihoods and open up the agricultural sector for corporate exploitation. The central government has proposed to suspend the laws for 18 months, a proposal farmers unions have rejected.
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