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The Rural Fetish
Siddharth Singh
Throwing money at rural India without redistributing its excess population is worthless populism
Nothing Interim in the Budget
The most notable feature of this interim budget is the income support programme for small and marginal farmers
The Roadshow Apart
Protest marches by farmers and emotive appeals by politicians are no substitute for the need to fix India’s broken farm sector
Bitter Sugar
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
Back to the Scorched Earth
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
Anger Management
The Government will have to balance the tide of agrarian unrest and manage its finances
Fire on the Farm
Agricultural loan waivers may buy some political space but they make for poor economics
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