Farm suicide trends in 2012 remain dismal
Farm suicides rose sharply by almost 450 in Maharashtra in 2012 to touch 3,786, the latest National Crime Records Bureau [...]
The crisis and the bitter half
Farmer’s diet worse than a convict’s
P. Sainath Several women in Karnataka’s Mandya district like Jayalakshmamma, whose husband committed suicide four [...]
Unwilling parents, unwary orphans
Jayalakshmi Palem (in the framed photograph) was 12 years old when she committed suicide on learning she would have to drop [...]