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In Photos: The Farmers Standing Their Ground During Delhi s Brutish Winter Women farmers from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh supporting the Kisan Andolan. Photo: Jignesh Mistry Rights23/Dec/2020 Amidst the brutish, cold winds of winter, peacefully protesting farmers from Punjab, Haryana and some parts of Uttar Pradesh remain positioned at the border areas of the National Capital Region of Delhi. For the last four weeks, little has been done by the prime minister himself, or his cabinet, to address the demands of peacefully protesting farmers, while dismissing any possibility of repealing the much-debated farm laws. Instead of engaging with the protestors peacefully, the Modi governmentâs own messaging has focused its efforts more towards justifying the farm Acts, while seeing the protests as an act of the opposition to âmisleadâ farmers and the rest of the citizenry. ....
Farmers Protest: Why Are Some âLiberalsâ Invoking the Legacy of Margaret Thatcher? In her home country today, derisive references to Margaret Thatcher are far more common than benign ones. But in India, time seems to have stood still since her glory days. Narendra Modi and Margaret Thatcher. Photo: Reuters Illustration: The Wire Rights18/Dec/2020 Fully 30 years after she was eased out of her job by her own party, Indian admirers of Britainâs Iron Lady are sending up fervent prayers for Margaret Thatcher Redux. Hacks are flooding the media space with froth as they sing paeans to the dear departed lady. (Their ardent hope is to be delivered soon from the ignominy of too much democracy.) And they donât want their readers to remember that, alone among Britainâs many Oxford-educated prime ministers, it was Thatcher whom her alma mater refused to award an honorary doctorate. She was still very much in power, and her lobbyists had left few stones ....