farmers

The Rural Fetish

Siddharth Singh

Throwing money at rural India without redistributing its excess population is worthless populism

Nothing Interim in the Budget

Siddharth Singh

The most notable feature of this interim budget is the income support programme for small and marginal farmers

The Roadshow Apart

Siddharth Singh

Protest marches by farmers and emotive appeals by politicians are no substitute for the need to fix India’s broken farm sector

Bitter Sugar

Madhavankutty Pillai

A crisis of oversupply has resulted in Rs 23,000 crore arrears owed to sugarcane farmers, a powerful political constituency that could make its discontent felt in next year’s General Election

Mumbai Notebook

Anil Dharker

The callous response to a farmers' march and the ifs and buts of Hillary's loss

A group of Tamil farmers made national headlines one year ago by kicking off a series of absurd protests in Delhi. V Shoba meets key characters from the landmark agitation who are back in their villages battling an unending farm crisis