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Tag Archives: agrarian crisis

Despair, haplessness everywhere: no succour in sight

March 23, 2007

I have just recently come back from Yavatmal. This is the district in Maharashtra that is the epicentre of suicides …

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Powerful grip of moneylenders

February 23, 2006

“The Deputy Chief Minister has got it wrong. He should not be persecuting and prosecuting the moneylenders (reference is to …

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