This Dalit History Month, training the spotlight on Sudha Varghese, who travelled from Kerala to Bihar as a teenager to live with the Musahar community, considered Dalits among the Dalits in the country, five decades ago. She never left
Rights activists have raised the alarm about a cycle of debt that results in long days, illness and injury as workers struggle to work off what they owe.
China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-18 07:26 Share CLOSE
CHENNAI, India－As protests against agricultural reforms catch global attention, India s neglected women farmers are seizing the moment to dust off their own long-standing demands－from land rights and farm credit to grain subsidies.
Hundreds of miles from the sit-in demonstrations near the capital, Ponnuthai said the protests were helping her and other women farmers gain recognition－spurring her local collective to draft new petitions for demands first made decades ago. The protests in Delhi have given us our identity as women farmers, Ponnuthai, who goes by one name, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from her home in the southern Tamil Nadu State.
Female farmers put demands in spotlight chinadaily.com.cn - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chinadaily.com.cn Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Women farmers have long complained about their particular difficulties in accessing wholesale markets, owning land, and securing credit. Now, the demonstrations in Delhi have given them a forum to press their demands as part of the greater protest movement.