Massive show of strength at farmers’ UP mahapanchayat

Hundreds of thousands of farmers from Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Rajasthan and Maharashtra gathered for a kisan mahapanchayat in Muzaffarnagar on Sunday, months ahead of assembly polls in the first three states, demanding that the central government roll back three contentious farm laws passed by Parliament a year ago.

Addressing the event organised by protesting farmers’ umbrella body Samyukt Kisan Morcha, Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said the Morcha would take the movement against the three farm laws to the entire country and seek a legal guarantee on minimum support prices for crops….


Surinder S. Jodhka: Changing Modes of Agriculture in Punjab


Jairus Banaji on the Indian corporate strategy of subordinating farm households and family labor

Indian Farmers’ Protest – Work in progress videos


Jatinder Kaur Tur & Mandeep Punia: Dalit activist Shiv Kumar’s medical report describes illegal detention, torture and PTSD / Chitleen K Sethi: Nodeep Kaur gets bail, medical report shows bruises caused by blunt object


Gautam Bhatia – Safoora Zargar and Disha Ravi: Similar cases, (same judge), vastly different verdicts


‘Citizens can’t be jailed for disagreeing with state policies’: Top quotes from Disha Ravi’s bail order / Rajmohan Gandhi: Just Who Is Spoiling India’s Image? A View From The US


“Pack of lies”: Disha Ravi family lawyers dismiss social media claims about activist’s religion


The WEF Agenda Behind Modi Farm Reform. By F. William Engdahl


WE STAND WITH INDIAN FARMERS – Full Page Advertisement in New York Times of February 16 in support of farmers movement


COLIN TODHUNTER: Farmers’ Protest in India: Price of Failure Will Be immense // Global Corporations’ plans for India’s agriculture


Nivedita Menon: Toolkits of democracy and a paranoid Hindu Rashtra


Express Editorial: Weaponising an advocacy document to arrest an activist signals paranoia, not democratic power.


Chakshu Roy: Over the years, poets, students, and even a village have been booked under the sedition law


Bharat Bhushan – Covid-19 drugs: Eager beavers of BJP play God


Election Commission responsible for spreading Covid-19, should probably be booked for murder: Madras HC // Bharat Bhushan on the departing CJI: Good riddance


Bharat Bhushan – Himalayan chessboard: India fishes for advantage in unstable Nepal


Bharat Bhushan: No one critical of the government seems to be innocent any longer / Delhi Police arrests 22-year-old environmental activist, calls her key to foreign hand


SIMRAN JEET SINGH: The Farmers’ Protests Are a Turning Point for India’s Democracy


Rihanna and Greta prompt an MEA outburst — and a hashtag firestorm

 

Avay Shukla: Acts Of God And Follies Of Man


Kunal Kamra and the Elasticity of Justice. By Avay Shukla


Avay Shukla: THE FINE ART OF LOSING FRIENDS


Avay Shukla – ARE THE FARMERS MAKING DELHI IRRELEVANT ?


Reflections of an American living in India…


Popular resistance to undeclared Emergency// Ghazipur Border: Rakesh Tikait के लिए यूपी –हरियाणा से रातों रात आ गए किसान


Samyukta Kisan Morcha distances itself from violent elements / Farmer leaders accuse Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu of instigating protesters and leading them to the Red Fort


Manu Kaushik: Before India Breaks Its Promises / Dushyant Dave: SC Should Have Declared New Farm Laws Unconstitutional / Republic Day Tractor Rally: Tear Gas At Singhu Border


India’s protesting farmers pay homage to the 143 farmers martyred in their movement and reject Centre’s offer to stay farm laws / 42-year old Haryana farmer dies by suicide at Tikri border


Satarupa Chakraborty: CJI’s Remarks on Women Farmers Are an Assault on Human Agency and Constitutional Rights / Pratap Bhanu Mehta: SC’s order on the farm bills is terrible constitutional precedent, bereft of judgment


Agenda for Social Democracy


Discussion on Indian Agriculture and the ongoing Kisan agitation


Navsharan Singh: A million reasons to march


Aruna Roy: All citizens should stand with the protesting farmers. At stake is India’s food self-sufficiency and sovereignty


Amit Bhaduri: Faces in mirror held up by farmers’ protest


Deb Mukharji – A Himalayan lesson, and about time


Noam Chomsky: Internationalism or Extinction (Universalizing Resistance)


Can Capitalism and Democracy Coexist?


Sam Kriss: ‘Neoliberalism’ isn’t a left-wing insult but a monstrous system of inequality


Defying capitalism and socialism, Kumarappa and Gandhi had imagined a decentralised Indian economy – Venu Madhav Govindu & Deepak Malghan


Amandeep Sandhu on Arthiyas – extract from PANJAB: Journeys Through Fault Lines


Ravinder Kaur: Has Modi finally met his match in India’s farmers?


STATE OF RURAL AND AGRARIAN INDIA REPORT 2020. By the Network of Rural and Agrarian Studies


P. Sainath: Did You Think the New Laws Were Only About the Farmers? // SCBA president says farm laws ‘unconstitutional’, offers free services as lawyer to agitating farmers


Subir Sinha: COVID has blurred the lines between waged, coerced and trafficked labour in India


Shobhit Mahajan: Incredible Indians


Lucknow: families give consent but cops stop interfaith wedding // UP villagers allege the police forced the so-called ‘love jehad’ arrest


Listen to this kisan’s views on the Modi Government


Why should Indian agriculture be liberalised when in most countries governments subsidise it? By Christophe Jaffrelot , Hemal Thakker