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Apr. 14th, 2008 08:54 amHappy Vishu.
Vishu is the traditional harvest festival back home. However, we've also been hearing that harvests are rarely worth celebrating for most farmers of our country. Although we're all really busy learning about the latest on Paris Hilton, everyday state of the stock market, flamboyant lifestyles of the rich and famous, greedy pigs in cricket and elsewhere, India shining and leaping and jumping with joy overall, and various such matters of importance from the English language press. We've been hearing about this farmer stuff also.
I'd like more people to read Kousik Nandy's story of a farmer far away. And follow P Sainath's series on agrarian crisis in Andhra Pradesh, Vidarbha, Wayanad and elsewhere.
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If you happen to see a little Nokia cell phone limping along on Mysuru-Bengaluru route, please tell him that I'm worried about him, so please hurry home.
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Been to Bylakuppe. I must say I'm mightily confused by our Tibetan friends (still) selling made-in-China water guns and such. Survival is important, and there's really no metaphor in this, I guess. How is our position (= that of the political leadership of our country) any different?
Vishu is the traditional harvest festival back home. However, we've also been hearing that harvests are rarely worth celebrating for most farmers of our country. Although we're all really busy learning about the latest on Paris Hilton, everyday state of the stock market, flamboyant lifestyles of the rich and famous, greedy pigs in cricket and elsewhere, India shining and leaping and jumping with joy overall, and various such matters of importance from the English language press. We've been hearing about this farmer stuff also.
I'd like more people to read Kousik Nandy's story of a farmer far away. And follow P Sainath's series on agrarian crisis in Andhra Pradesh, Vidarbha, Wayanad and elsewhere.
***
If you happen to see a little Nokia cell phone limping along on Mysuru-Bengaluru route, please tell him that I'm worried about him, so please hurry home.
***
Been to Bylakuppe. I must say I'm mightily confused by our Tibetan friends (still) selling made-in-China water guns and such. Survival is important, and there's really no metaphor in this, I guess. How is our position (= that of the political leadership of our country) any different?
