One morning in 2014, Ramrao Panchleniwar, an ordinary cotton grower in Maharashtra’s infamous Vidarbha region, consumed two bottles of pesticide…
Millions of people are displaced every year by development schemes such as the construction of dams, national parks, factories, SEZs,…
Budget hasn’t provided any relief on MEP or export duty. Will distressed farmers and traders speak as angrily in Maharashtra…
A debt waiver promise, global headwinds, and local politics collide as Bacchu Kadu’s protest turns Maharashtra’s agrarian distress into a…
If policymakers fail to act or recognise that ‘normal’ weather no longer exists, 2026 and our future will see such…
The Congress won’t and can’t on its own reinvent itself. The masses must seize control of the grand old party…
Jaideep Hardikar is a senior journalist and PARI Roving Reporter, based in Nagpur. He is author of Ramrao: The story of India’s farm crisis.
