The headlines in English national newspapers would have us believe Mumbai cared only about office timings and traffic disruption as an estimated 35,000 farmers marched into the city on Sunday, walking 180 kilometres from Nashik. But, across the city, individuals,…
Thousands of women farmers marched into Mumbai alongside their male peers on Monday demanding the government recognizes their rights over forests and stops the takeover of land for industrial projects. The protesters, who over several days walked 180 km (112…
"Inquilab Zindabad," shouted a farm leader. "Zindabad, Zindabad," the farmers responded. At the end of a gruelling march across 180 kilometres, the exhausted farmers’ chants at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai – where the morcha concluded on March 12 –…
Farmers are now surviving on groundnuts, the supply of which is also running out. Farmers such as a 60 year-old Sundarabai Mhadu Bhoi, have carried groundnuts to the rally which they have generously shared with the reporters at the venue.…
Over 35,000 farmers from across Maharashtra, who embarked on a 'Long March' from Nashik on March 6 to press their various demands, arrived in Mumbai today to protest at the Vidhan Bhavan. Currently, a meeting between the delegation of farmers and…
The opposition raised the issue in the house Monday, while the BJP’s bitter ally Shiv Sena slammed the government in an editorial in Saamana. Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Maharashtra government has approached the leaders of the ongoing farmer…
The massive, seven-day march by the farmers of Maharashtra led by the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) from Nashik to Mumbai has ended in victory, with the State government accepting the demands of the struggle. (Watch this space for updates.)…
An important feature of Kisan Sabha's "Long March", as it entered Mumbai city, is the extraordinary support it has been receiving from the Mumbai's middle class households. Resident associations are lining up the Eastern Express Highway and distributing water, poha…
At least 35,000 farmers have converged on India's financial capital Mumbai to protest what they term the government's failure to help them out of deep distress. The demands of the farmers, who walked for four days from Nashik district in…
Tens of thousands of farmers who marched up to six days from across western India arrived Monday in the country's business capital to demand loan waivers, fair prices for their produce and other help as India's agriculture sector struggles from…