When Farmers Stood Up
Dhawale, Ashok
¿ In the summer of 2020, the Narendra Modi government pushed through three anti-farmer, pro-corporate bills in parliament. This came after decades of cuts in subsidies and price supports to the farmers, leading to deaths by suicide of 400, 000 debt-ridden farmers, a fourth of them since Modi became prime minister in 2014. On 26 November 2020, farmers began a heroic protest that lasted through the pandemic, police repression, government callous...