Farmers protest
Makeshift-house, landmark of farmers protest, makes its way back home
December 16, 2021
The 13-month-long peaceful protest against the three farm laws ended only a few days ago, after a full 380 days spent by thousands of farmers on the borders of the national capital, New Delhi. Since the call by the farmers’ unions to suspend the agitation, the farmers have been...
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Farmers Protest: A saga of sorrow and delight
December 13, 2021
“Jo bole so Nihaal! Sat Sri Akal” shouts a young boy, sitting in the driver’s seat on a tractor at the Singhu Border on Saturday as his family finished packing their belongings on the journey back home as the year-long farmers’ protest at Singhu Border was suspended by fa...
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Singhu Border: The protest with a human touch
December 13, 2021
On Saturday afternoon, the area around Singhu Border in New Delhi bears the look of the site of a huge village fair that has come to an end after a long time as hundreds of tents set up all over are being dismantled and the huge community kitchens that fed tens of thousands every...
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Farmers protest: The year gone by
November 26, 2021
Over the past year, the farmers have made their homes at several border points of the national capital, notably Singhu and Tikri in north-west Delhi and Ghazipur in the east where they have been in a face off with the police and the government for an entire year. The uniqu...
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Poor poll prospects push Modi to repeal farm laws
November 20, 2021
The repeal of the extremely contentious farm laws is one of the biggest political and ideological defeats for the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which had over the past 18 months invested a lot of air time as well political capital and its entire weight behind the fa...
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Lakhimpur Kheri to hurt BJP in UP polls, say farmers’ leaders
October 7, 2021
On Thursday, the Supreme Court began hearing a public interest litigation into the death of 8 persons, including farmers, at Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday. The PIL was registered at the direction of the top court as more details of the incident in which three cars belonging to a unio...
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9 months into protest, farmers remain committed to cause
August 26, 2021
On November 26, 2020, when the first tractor, a green Massey Fergusson driven by Jalandhar-based farmer Gurdeep Singh, leading thousands of other tractors and farm vehicles from various states in north India, breached multiple police barricades and finally arrived at its destinat...
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‘Kisan Sansad’ at Jantar Mantar, aims to create farmers’ parliament
July 22, 2021
As the farmers’ protest against three farm laws rammed through the Parliament last year by the government without any debate enters its eighth month, the farmers have upped the ante on their by and large peaceful protest to pressure ruling party as well as opposition parliament...
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Baisakhi at Tikri border: Colours of celebration & patriotism
April 13, 2021
Beside the dusty road at Pakoda Chowk crossing, Bahadurgarh, near Tikri border, a group of middle-aged men can be seen preparing for a wrestling match to be held this evening. About 15-20 young men and teenagers are busy arranging chairs, music system and preparing the mud ground...
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Mitti Satyagraha: Retracing Gandhi’s peaceful battles
April 7, 2021
“In 1930, when Mahatma Gandhi had decided to launch the salt satyagraha in Dandi to get the government to remove ban on domestic salt production and end its monopoly on salt, not many were convinced about the utility of a non-violent protest march passing through villages. But ...
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Sorry state of sanitation adds to the farmers’ woes
March 20, 2021
An intensely pungent smell greets one nose as one approaches the camps of the farmers protesting at the Tikri border on the fringes of north-western Delhi. The source of the odour becomes evident once one is inside the protest site. All around heaps of garbage lie scattered and e...
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Weather has changed, not our demands: Farmers at Ghazipur border
March 13, 2021
The ongoing farmers’ protest against the three farm laws at Delhi borders, which recently completed 100 days, has formed new solidarities across castes and communities at the Ghazipur border, say the protesting farmers. Calling themselves the ‘soldiers of Tikait’ (Rakesh Ti...
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