Women farmers now have the space to write their own stories of protest – and more
A newsletter focused on women has sprung up at the protest sites on the Delhi border. Its ambitions are larger. Women farmers from Punjab read the first edition of the Karti Dharti newsletter. | Tanushree Bhasin
At Bahadurgarh near one of the largest farmer protest sites on the Delhi border, a small group of women lay on charpoys in the afternoon sun in mid-February, listening to an article being read out to them. It was about young labour activist Nodeep Kaur, who has been in jail for nearly five weeks for organising workers near another farmer protest site. Published as the cover story of a newly-founded biweekly Punjabi newsletter called