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A study in Gujarat reveals why women who have been widowed during COVID-19 are struggling to access their land rights.
The still unfolding COVID-19 pandemic exacted a heavy toll in rural India during the second wave. It led to more deaths than the first wave, and rural fatalities were (...)
“Repeal the evil laws,” demands the placard in the picture above. A determined yearlong opposition by a popular farmers’ movement to three agricultural laws ultimately did force their repeal in the Indian parliament earlier this month. I recently spoke with Kavitha Kuruganti of the Samyukt Kisan (...)
Farmers end their agitation after the repeal of the three controversial farm laws but indicate that their new-found unity will continue.
On December 11, after a historic 380-day struggle against three contentious farm laws—the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, (...)
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha on December 9 announced suspension of the yearlong protests after the Union government agreed to the farmers’ pending demands.
New Delhi: Seven farmers’ rights groups from across the world have issued a joint statement congratulating Indian farmers on their historic (...)
After an entire year of demonizing, disparaging and denigrating the year-long farmers’ struggle, the largest non-violent mass movement in world history, Modi finally blinked on November 19 and announced the government would repeal the three ‘black’ pro-corporate farm laws in the forthcoming winter (...)
New Delhi: While announcing the repeal of the three contested farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made no attempt to hide his emotions. In his characteristic style, he spoke about his tapasya to improve the lives of farmers but regretted how, despite all his efforts to convince them of the (...)
Notwithstanding the fact that the government has announced its intention to repeal three contentious farm laws, farmers have vowed to continue their agitation until “all” of their demands are met.
Ghazipur (New Delhi): The morning smog hadn’t cleared yet. The sun was still behind a greyish (...)
This is a rare climbdown from the prime minister. But the space for dissent is still diminishing under his government
It is not often that Narendra Modi gives a televised address to the nation and it is met with relief, not disarray. The Indian prime minister’s previous frightening acts of (...)
After over 15 months of farmers protests, Modi has finally been made to accept defeat and to come out and announce the repeal of the three farm laws.
Indeed, this is a historic win. After dismantling the anti NRC/CAA movement, by staging Delhi riots and throwing the anti-Hindutva activists in (...)
What the Indian media can never openly admit is that the largest peaceful democratic protest the world has seen in years – certainly the greatest organised at the height of the pandemic – has won a mighty victory.
A victory that carries forward a legacy. Farmers of all kinds, men and women – (...)
Letter of Congratulations!
Congratulations on behalf of the peasant community of Bangladesh for the great victory and success in the peasants’ movement of India!
In a statement, the leaders of the steering committee of the Bangladesh Pragatisheel Krishak Sangram Parishad(Progressive Peasants (...)
At every stage of the agitations, the BJP-led government attempted to crush the farmers’ movement. And failed.
New Delhi: In what will be hailed as a great victory for the year-long farmers’ movement in the times to come, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday morning announced his government’s (...)
The study, carried out by economists associated with Punjabi University, implies that lives lost during the protest were of small and marginal farmers, and landless cultivators.
Chandigarh: Contrary to the claim that it is mostly ‘big farmers’ who are behind the farmers’ protest at Delhi’s (...)
A lot of praise has been bestowed on the farmers’ struggle against the black farm laws for its historic achievement of being the longest, most sustained non-violent mass civil disobedience movement in history far surpassing in duration, mobilization and intensity earlier historic movements such (...)
With characteristic fearlessness, Balagopal speaks truth not only to power but also to his own friends.
The following is Jean Dreze’s foreword to K. Balagopal’s book Probings in the Political Economy of Agrarian Classes. Excerpted with permission.
Life was pretty quiet at the Indian Statistical (...)
On 26 June 2021, tens of thousands of Indian farmers will gather in front of the government offices in India’s twenty-eight states. They will come to commemorate the completion of seven months of their nation-wide protest against the extreme right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of Prime (...)
‘The writ of the government is not visible in rural Haryana’
The farmers’ protests that have grown into a countrywide people’s movement took off from Punjab and later spread out to other states. But of late it is Haryana that has become the movement’s nerve centre. Farmers here are taking on the (...)
A survey revealed that big peasants, who were among the top lenders to the labourers, gave them loans in the garb of paying low daily wages.
Mansa, Patiala (Punjab): A narrow dirt road alongside a filthy pond enters Neelam’s one room house at Aklia village of Punjab’s Mansa district. The house (...)
The ongoing struggle of farmers in India is the most significant mass mobilisation in decades and represents the biggest challenge to the government of Narendra Modi since it first came to power in 2014.
The three agricultural reform laws forced through Parliament during the pandemic lockdown (...)
“The way in which more than 40 agricultural unions and other organizations have worked together is a lesson for workers’ union federations. […] What is needed are large-scale strikes every few days in different industrial sectors and states.”
The agricultural laws proposed in 2020 by India’s (...)
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