Suicides by farmers have reached
an alarming rate due to the sorry state
of Indian agriculture
Feroze Varun Gandhi
The chapter "A way forward” from A Rural Manifesto: Realizing India’s Future Through Her Villages, authored by member of parliament Feroze Varun Gandhi, son of the late Sanjay and Maneka Gandhi and grandson of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her husband Feroze is reprinted with permission from the publishers Rupa Publications India Private Limited. The book, published in 2018, comprises of xx + 825 pages and is priced at Rs 995.
We had started this discussion by asking whether the village economy in India is sustainable. The short answer, in the near term, is that it isn’t — India’s urbanization......