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Crisis in India’s bread basket
How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity
Shreya Sinha | Sep 16, 2023
When neoliberalism came to the Indian farm
With a focus on agricultural policy since the 1990s, 'Distress in the Fields' demonstrates how neoliberal interventions sowed the seeds of the crisis faced by farmers today
Tanya Matthan | May 27, 2023
A new border in the old republic
The class and caste-based contradictions within India’s farmers’ protest.
Aditya Bahl | Apr 28, 2021
Rice and sovereignty
The grain that sustains more than half of the world's population may soon be owned and controlled by a private company.
Devinder Sharma | Mar 13, 2004
Towards a Grey Revolution
The message from the Government of India is becoming clear: farmers get out of agriculture and make way for the contractors.
Devinder Sharma | Jan 01, 2004
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Crisis in India’s bread basket
How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity
Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike
A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between
