FrankenThursday goes back to that underreported tragedy that is the Indian Farmer suicides. Again from  Celsias.
One of the least-reported tragedies that resulted from globalization and corporatization of agriculture is the farmer suicide story of India – a tragedy comprising several hundred thousand individual tragedies, and possibly the ‘largest wave of suicides in history’. Last month UK Independent carried a report titled “1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India  “, and cited falling water table, crop failure and debt as the reasons. The figure and the reasons are – at best – cruelly watered down versions of hard and sad reality. The actual piece of data is nearer 200,000 and the reasons both global and local.
Magsaysay award winning journalist and author of Everybody Loves a Good Drought, P. Sainath keeps the collective Indian nation’s (and hopefully global) conscience alive by reporting very regularly on the plight of the farmers. As the rural affairs editor of a national newspaper, he bases each of his intricate analysis on hard statistics and highlights the different causes and contrasts that have resulted in the sorry state of affairs (variously called agrarian crisis, rural distress, even Neo-Liberal Terrorism) of these care-takers of the land.
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