The Talk
Over 300,000 farmers have committed suicide in this country between 1995 and 2015. A gross underestimate, but still a terrible figure that officialdom admits to. Yet India’s agrarian crisis has gone beyond the agrarian and is reaching into many other layers and sectors of society. That crisis is shaped and driven by the greatest levels of inequality independent India has ever seen. An inequality cynically constructed by the policies of the past 25 years. But the chickens have come home to roost. How do we deal with the deepening distress? What are the options before us in finding a way out of the morass?
Mr P Sainath brings out the situation in the country in this talk of Manthan.