View: The shared history of tractors, tanks and Sikh-led protests
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Yet tractors and tanks are not as different as those events made them seem. They share a common history which also, strikingly, interlinks indirectly with a history of Sikh lead protests.
‘Tractors Versus Tanks!’ newspaper headlines proclaimed after this year’s Republic Day. Thankfully, the two didn’t come into direct conflict, but the juxtaposition was striking, with the Indian Army’s tanks rolling in the official parade, and the tractors of the farmers protesting the new farm laws rumbling and battering their way through Delhi, sometimes just a short distance away.