farmers

A Harvest of Distress

Sreedeep

Farmers are on the brink and the tragedy of Sangrur tells us why

A Cry in the Wilderness

Priyanka Kotamraju and Anshu Lalit

What do women want? We listen to desperate voices, from labourers to rape survivors, in Bundelkhand

Bitter Harvest

V Shoba

The politics of water has added to the woes of rural Karnataka’s suicide capital

Curse of the Land

Ullekh NP and Siddharth Singh

The Singur verdict and the future of industrialisation in India

Punjab: On the Boil

Siddharth Singh

A stolen holy book. Erupting streets and offending posters. An inept government and angry farmers. Is Punjab inching toward the brink? Open follows the fault lines of a volatile state

FARMER ENTRAPPED

PR Ramesh

Incentives to help farmers stay put in agriculture are a short cut, and the Centre should focus on shifting them away to lucrative avenues

Harvest of Distress

Kumar Anshuman

The villages of Mathura, a district of stark contrasts just 155 km from Delhi, are reeling from the worst agrarian crisis in a decade

The relaunch of Rahul Gandhi

Kumar Anshuman

The 56 days ‘Chintan’ has not changed Rahul Gandhi much and he has yet to become Rahul 2.0. But it’s a marketing strategy that seems to be working for Congress as of now