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Farmers shout anti-government slogans as they march during a protest in Amritsar, India, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill)
Millions of farmers are protesting in India. What s driving them? And what does it reveal about India?
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Mandakini Gahlot, independent journalist based in New Dehli. Contributor to France 24, USA Today, Al Jazeera English and more. (@MandakiniGahlot)
Vikas Rawal, professor of agricultural economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
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Washington Post: Opinion: India is at war with itself and even Rihanna is noticing This flag is our life, it’s drawn from the blood and toil of our ancestors, a farmer from Punjab told me, pointing to the Indian tricolor fluttering from the corner of his tractor as it joined a cavalcade of thousands on the morning of India’s Republic Day on Jan. 26.
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Kaleigh O’Keefe, editor with Liberation News, poet and host of the First Fridays Open Mic in Jamaica Plain, Boston, and member of United Auto Workers Local 1596, to discuss their recent article in Liberation News, Make 10 billionaires richer or freeze global poverty? Capitalism chose the former in 2020, the stark differences in how capitalist and socialist governments responded to the coronavirus, and common-sense measures that could be taken to address the public health crisis but haven t.
NEW DELHI – Under a rain-slick tarpaulin, a half-dozen elderly women bake
roti on a wood-fired griddle flattening dough, flipping browned bread from dawn until the sun retreats into Delhi’s evening smoke. Anyone who walks in gets served rice and cooked vegetables and, to wash it down, a cumin-flavored yogurt drink.
Across the road, Jagjeet Singh, a burly man with a large fanny pack and a light purple turban, churns a hefty pot of milk coffee from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. In the evenings, Singh switches to hot milk spiced with turmeric and cloves good for the cold, good for the day’s exhaustion. He goes through about 260 gallons of milk daily.
Amending Few Clauses Not Sufficient, Repeal Farm Acts: Senior Economists to Agri Minister
The economists, who have engaged with issues of agricultural policy, said that the Centre s reforms were based on wrong assumptions about why farmers were unable to get remunerative prices.
Union agricultural minister Narendra Singh Tomar. Photo: PTI
Government22/Dec/2020
New Delhi: A group of senior economists have released an open letter to the Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar calling for the repeal of the three contentious farm bills “which are not in the best interests of the small and marginal farmers of the country”.
The signatories, including professor D. Narasimha Reddy formerly with the National Institute of Rural Development, said that while changes were needed in the agricultural marketing system, the “reforms brought by these Acts do not serve that purpose”.