There are occasions when one suddenly becomes aware not just of the inadequacy of economic concepts for understanding reality but even of their obfuscating role. One such occasion was the recent kisan...

A debt-ridden Maharashtra farmer who had arrived in Delhi with thousands of his peers for Friday’s protest was found dead on Saturday under mysterious circumstances. The blood-soaked body of Kiran S...

Sir — It is a matter of shame that the problems of Indian farmers are increasing day by day. Once again, thousands of farmers started a protest against the Maharashtra government for not keeping its...

Everyone expected the Narendra Modi government to do something big — or at least promise something big — before the general elections. Everyone also sensed that it would be something to do with fa...

It is evident from the recent farmers’ protests that the economic hardship in the agricultural sector has become acute. Some fresh evidence from the Labour Bureau and Central Statistics Office provi...

Hundreds of farmers in East Burdwan’s Bhatar and Mangalkote let cows into their paddy fields on Friday to protest lack of irrigation facilities.The agitation to save the kharif (monsoon) crops from ...

The Congress on Tuesday blasted the Centre for forcibly stopping farmers from entering the national capital, with Rahul Gandhi pointing out that the BJP’s Gandhi Jayanti celebrations started with a ...