By M L Satyan Bengaluru: The farmers’ protest in Delhi border areas has crossed 49 days on January 13. Shockingly, more than 65 farmers seem to have died (natural death and suicides) in the protest venues. In spite of nine formal talks (including the one with Amit Shah) the mainContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India has expressed concern about the news coverage of the ongoing farmers’ protest against the federal government’s newly passed farm laws. An advisory from the guild on December 4 cautioned media houses against delegitimizing the agitation by using term suchContinue Reading
New Delhi: Thousands of farmers on November 26 flung barricades into a river, threw bricks at cops and physically pushed vehicles as they were stopped by Haryana on their way to a protest march in Delhi. After a two-hour clash on a bridge in which teargas and water cannons wereContinue Reading
By Tejaswi Ravinder Hyderabad: When the Bengal famine struck the British India province in the mid-nineteenth century, over 3 million lives were lost. A group of researchers from IIT-Gandhinagar, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Indian Meteorological department Analyzed the weather and soil data for the past 150-yearsContinue Reading
New Delhi: More than half of Indian farmers oppose and 35 percent support the three farm reform laws passed by Parliament in September, according to a survey conducted in 16 states. Almost 40 percent expressed fear that the new laws will end state-run markets and government procurement at minimum supportContinue Reading
Konchowki: One of my friends, a teacher with a secure government salary, made a sympathetic statement on September 27 while chatting on the recent passing of the farm bills and its assent by the president. “I feel really sorry for the farmers; these Acts will affect them dearly.” I askedContinue Reading
By Michael Ani Jalandhar, Sept 20, 2020: The Green Revolution of the 1970s had enabled the state of Punjab along with Haryana to produce the maximum food grains for the entire nation. The successive governments contributed much to build up the infrastructure for a well-organized Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC)Continue Reading