1. Farmer loans being written off once are election stunts which does not permanently solve the problem.
2. Even the supposedly rich farmers of Punjab have been agitating against the proposed laws.
3. Farmer suicides continue to happen. Why ? Most farmers in India own one to a few acres of land which does not give them the earning to pay off the high-interest-taking loan sharks ( micro-finance companies, regular banks and individual mahajans ). In his 9 PM program on NDTV, Ravish Kumar spoke of Bihari farmers earning about 3000 per month. Just not enough.
4. When the few acres farmland land gets divided among children, each person inherits a meager estate, thus perpetuating poverty.
5. A farmer taking micro-finance loan renders him or her only able to pay for some immediate need ( say fertilizer purchase ). It does not make them rich.
6. The YouTuber Karl Rock spoke in one of his vids of visiting the village where the film Mother India was shot. The plot involves a moneylender ( mahajan ) called Sukhi Lala. I quote from
this thread of mine about the same topic. The article is from 2019 :
The film was shot in 1957. That village has not changed socio-economically even now, as Karl Rock said in his vid. Neither has India changed largely.
I agree that the middle class also have it tough. As example, some years ago when Kingfisher Airlines went bankrupt there was the event of a woman committing suicide. She was the wife of a Kingfisher Airlines engineer whose job of course was lost. They had taken loans for various middle class things including their son's higher education. Now they would have been harassed by loan agents. She committed suicide.
I used to watch Kaun Banega Crorepati for the human stories of the contestants. Most of them would have never seen the middle prize money of 320,000 rupees. Many of these people would be middle class.
India is a country where money is omnipotent and the middle class too suffer, yet it is sad that they don't call for change.
India has probably the highest number of engineers graduating out of colleges every year than any country in the world. By that count, if these people were really learning useful or innovative things, and given India's big industrial base, India should have long had a settlement on Mars. But is it so ?
Let me give another example. The two most fundamental things in a classical computer are the microprocessor ( main hardware ) and the operating system ( main software ). Every year India enrolls hundreds of thousands of students in computer engineering courses and most of them graduate in three years. Or some go in for a PhD. This has been so for at least 20 years, so these will be a few million computer engineers, yet there is no Indian operating system and microprocessor. Why ? What are these few million people doing ?
Yet NDTV shows appeals to the public to donate for curing blindness. Yet there are ads on this very website for the Ketto organization appealing the Indian public to crowdsource for treating people of cancers and other ailments which can cost 20 or more lakhs.
What is the government doing ? Wasting resources on building world's tallest statues, purchasing the equivalent of Air Force One airplanes, building new parliament building etc.
If I was the leader of the country I personally would have shot those parents who kill their own children for "honor". This issue and of discrimination should not have existed 74 years after Independence. They exist because the political system has failed to bring enlightenment to the society.
Please watch
this song. And the vid posted in post# 184.
