https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/ramrao-the-story-of-indias-farm-crisis/
On a trip to India 8 years ago, I picked up “A Village Awaits Doomsday” at an airport bookshop. It appeared to be an interesting read and I was glad to find it in a shop that otherwise was littered with business titles and pulp fiction. On the flight, I read it cover to cover and was at once impressed and moved- the book tells the story of a community caught in the middle of economic and climate tectonics and of a people whose stories most of us never intersect with. The sheer desperation and poverty of hundreds of millions of rural Indians can scarcely be exaggerated while the monopolistic media houses only tell us of billionaires and shiny people. Indeed the people of the village in question were not then seeing “ache din” nor have they since. Nor does the future hold much promise for people in what is the largest human interest story in the world- the economic and social destruction of the Indian countryside.
by Romi Mahajan
28/02/2022