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November 2023 marks three years of the historic farmers’ protests in India that captured the imagination of people in India and around the world; and two years since the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government capitulated and repealed the farm laws at the bedrock of the (...)
A ban on purse-seine fishing in Tamil Nadu has threatened thousands of fishers’ livelihoods – and they are refusing to give up without a fight
“There were young people with degrees taking to purse seines because of the pay,” Karthi P said. “It was easy work.”
He was one of those. Having (...)
In 2015, after you were done gawking at the statue of Princess Di in the world’s largest department store, Harrods in London, you could head on over to the world-famous food halls where you could buy, among other high-priced indulgences, a type of tea branded “Ambootia Snow Mist.” At $7,864 (...)
India’s flawed development process does not include the cost of restoring the lives and livelihoods of the displaced communities.
The issue of a viable resettlement, particularly for the Bhils, a Scheduled Tribe group displaced by the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project on the Narmada river, has (...)
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 (...)
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) (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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