Saturday, January 16, 2016

INSIGHTS (special edition): Plight of Indian Farmers

Posted by Anup Baral January 16, 2016 :
Once a land of plenty. Now a land of the dying. India's bread basket, the state of Punjab, is facing an unspeakable horror of mammoth proportions. Thousands of farmers are committing suicides in the state which decades ago ushered in the country's Green Revolution. Channel NewsAsia's Tamal Mukherjee travels to the villages in Sangrur district in Punjab to know more about the tragedy and the attempts being made to rescue those who are on the brink.

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