"While the Lakme Fashion Week, 2006, was on, farmers were committing suicide in Vidarbha, Maharashtra, to the tune of seven a day. Yet, there were all of six journalists covering Vidarbha in the mainstream press, while ther were 512 covering the Fashion Week. The theme of the fashion week was cotton; yet within that time frame, nearly 50 cotton farmers had killed themselves."
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Talk about ironies...
... this quote from eminent journalist and one of the finest chroniclers of "poverty in India", Mr P Sainath, stands out,
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