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Don't doge the question man if you don't give a damn why come to threads related to us
An Indian Farmer Commits Suicide Every 30 Minutes
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The failed socialist model which squeezed farmers to subsidize growth in other sectors is to be blamed for this state of affairs. If you want to blame somebody, blame the govt. which brought matters to such state of affairs.
Monsanto just did what it said it would do. They have no responsibility to the people of India, the Govt. of India does.
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Both are equally responsible ..
Latha Reddy Musukula was making tea on a recent morning when she spotted the money lenders walking down the dirt path toward her house. They came in a phalanx of 15 men, by her estimate. She knew their faces, because they had walked down the path before.
After each visit, her husband, a farmer named Veera Reddy, sank deeper into silence, frozen by some terror he would not explain. Three times he cut his wrists. He tied a noose to a tree, relenting when the family surrounded him, weeping. In the end he waited until Ms. Musukula stepped out, and then he hanged himself from a pipe supporting their roof, leaving a careful list of each debt he owed to each money lender. She learned the full sum then: 400,000 rupees, or $6,430.
A current of dread runs through this farmland, where women in jewel-colored saris bend their backs over watery terraces of rice. In Andhra Pradesh, the southern state where Ms. Musukula lives, the suicide rate among farmers is nearly three times the national average; since 1995, the number of suicides by India’s farmers has passed 290,000, according to the national crime records bureau, though the statistics do not specify the reason for the act.
India’s small farmers, once the country’s economic backbone and most reliable vote bank, are increasingly being left behind. With global competition and rising costs cutting into their lean profits, their ranks are dwindling, as is their contribution to the gross domestic product. If rural voters once made their plight into front-page news around election time, this year the large parties are jockeying for the votes of the urban middle class, and the farmers’ voices are all but silent.
Even death is a stopgap solution, when farmers like Mr. Reddy take their own lives, their debts pass from husband to widow, from father to children. Ms. Musukula is now trying to scrape a living from the four acres that defeated her husband. Around her she sees a country transformed by economic growth, full of opportunities to break out of poverty, if only her son or daughter could grasp one.
But the trap that closed on her husband is tightening around her. Like nearly every one of her neighbors, she is locked into a bond with village money lenders — an intimate bond, and sometimes a menacing one. No sooner did they cut her husband’s body down than one of them was in her house, threatening to block the cremation unless she paid.
Her appeals to officials for help have been met with indifference. Lately, her fear has been getting the better of her.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/w...ide-debts-fall-on-families-in-india.html?_r=1
After each visit, her husband, a farmer named Veera Reddy, sank deeper into silence, frozen by some terror he would not explain. Three times he cut his wrists. He tied a noose to a tree, relenting when the family surrounded him, weeping. In the end he waited until Ms. Musukula stepped out, and then he hanged himself from a pipe supporting their roof, leaving a careful list of each debt he owed to each money lender. She learned the full sum then: 400,000 rupees, or $6,430.
A current of dread runs through this farmland, where women in jewel-colored saris bend their backs over watery terraces of rice. In Andhra Pradesh, the southern state where Ms. Musukula lives, the suicide rate among farmers is nearly three times the national average; since 1995, the number of suicides by India’s farmers has passed 290,000, according to the national crime records bureau, though the statistics do not specify the reason for the act.
India’s small farmers, once the country’s economic backbone and most reliable vote bank, are increasingly being left behind. With global competition and rising costs cutting into their lean profits, their ranks are dwindling, as is their contribution to the gross domestic product. If rural voters once made their plight into front-page news around election time, this year the large parties are jockeying for the votes of the urban middle class, and the farmers’ voices are all but silent.
Even death is a stopgap solution, when farmers like Mr. Reddy take their own lives, their debts pass from husband to widow, from father to children. Ms. Musukula is now trying to scrape a living from the four acres that defeated her husband. Around her she sees a country transformed by economic growth, full of opportunities to break out of poverty, if only her son or daughter could grasp one.
But the trap that closed on her husband is tightening around her. Like nearly every one of her neighbors, she is locked into a bond with village money lenders — an intimate bond, and sometimes a menacing one. No sooner did they cut her husband’s body down than one of them was in her house, threatening to block the cremation unless she paid.
Her appeals to officials for help have been met with indifference. Lately, her fear has been getting the better of her.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/w...ide-debts-fall-on-families-in-india.html?_r=1
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Appalling poverty.No wonder we have to provide employment for half a million Indians besides more than one million illegal Indians. We hope there is Indo-Pak aman. Some of the burden then can be borne by Pakistan. After all poor neighbors deserve help.
Waaaaaaaaaah
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remainds me of a begali saying...Chida katai sho'e lakh takar shopno
Who cares? As long as Edvige Antonia Albina Màino aka godmother Sonia Gandhi and her sickular allies (Mulla Mulayam etc) are safe, it's not really a problem.1 million stupid farmers and soldiers are not even worth the boot of Mulla Mullayam , Mayawati, Sharad Pawar and Godmother Italia. None of us really care either. Kejriwal goes a hunger strike and resigns - entire population goes mad and starts abusing AAP. Namo`s inaction during riots leads to a 1000 odd deaths -entire population and media goes mad. Godmother Sonya ,italian mafia and sickulars steal billions of dollars and cause a 100,000 farmer suicides - no one cares.
150 million ugly flies on a piece of shit - that`s what your country is. Godmother Sonia Gandhi will have to rule us for 10 thousand years before India becomes as poor and a %hithole comparable to Bangladesh. Also , deal , send us the 1 million illegal indians and we send back the 30 million illegal lazy good for nothing Bangladeshis .
150 million ugly flies on a piece of shit - that`s what your country is. Godmother Sonia Gandhi will have to rule us for 10 thousand years before India becomes as poor and a %hithole comparable to Bangladesh. Also , deal , send us the 1 million illegal indians and we send back the 30 million illegal lazy good for nothing Bangladeshis .
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