Farmers’ protest | Women farmers take centre stage at protest sites
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March 08, 2021 18:11 IST
Organisers laid out elaborate plans to let women farmers manage the stage, arrange food and security and share tales of their struggles on the International Women’s Day
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Large number of women from Punjab and Haryana participate in farmers protest against the Center s new farm laws, on International Women s Day, at Tikri Border in Delhi on March 8, 2021.
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Organisers laid out elaborate plans to let women farmers manage the stage, arrange food and security and share tales of their struggles on the International Women’s Day
Farmers in Haryana block highway to mark 100 days of agitation
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Traffic snarls and diversions seen at many points
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Farmers block an expressway to mark the 100th day of the protest against the farm laws, near Kundli border, in Haryana on March 6, 2021.
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Traffic snarls and diversions seen at many points
Hundreds of farmers, including women, held a blockade at five points on the 135-km-long Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway, connecting five districts of Haryana, on Saturday to mark 100 days of the agitation around Delhi in protest against the farm laws.
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The protests led to traffic snarls at a few points and the police diverted traffic to avoid inconvenience to the commuters.
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Twenty-first century India is an emerging power. Its socio-economic growth in the first decade of this century was so promising that many started ideating it as the “Indian Century” the
Pax Indica much along the lines of the 19th century dominance of its past coloniser, the
Pax Britannica. The true nationalists of India surely dream of India becoming a global leader in all thinkable fields.
However, such global dominance requires creating fertile conditions back home to ‘take-off’, along with gaining moral high ground internationally to lead the world. The moral high ground in this era of human rights and civil liberties comes from the socio-political culture and practices of the nation.
Farm Protest Is Losing Steam: Time For Government To Make Some Smart MovesÂ
by R Jagannathan - Feb 23, 2021 01:44 PM
Rakesh Tikait with farmers at a protest.
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Time for Prime Minister Modi to make some adroit political moves to send the agitators packing, but with some face-savers and self-respect intact.
On 18 February, Rakesh Tikait, the western Uttar Pradesh-based leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, threatened that farmers could destroy their standing crop this season if three farm reforms laws are not repealed.
Thatâs probably the quickest climbdown in the history of Indian farm protests, offering a hint that the agitation is fast losing steam. A rail