Every half an hour, a farmer in India commits suicide

by Amit Kumar Singh on February 13, 2012

P Sainath, a photo journalist from the Hindu, describes farmers’ plight in India. I did not know that every half an hour, a farmer in India commits suicide. More and more farmers are leaving their land and hunger is increasing despite our country is getting richer while competing with world’s biggest economies.

Once Swami Vivekanand said “India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters”. Now I wonder what happened to that brotherhood and why we can not help our farmers. Over 250 million Indians go to bed hungry every day. This can easily be stopped if our govt think seriously about the problem.

Must watch the documentary below. Amit

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23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

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