In this annual ritual of blame game, the farmers are the biggest losers.
If in God the government trusts, whom do the citizens turn to?
Rythu Bandhu Scheme is not like other loan waiver schemes where intermediaries make a killing.
Governments respond to farm crisis as a political problem, by announcing loan waivers.
As usual, the government is just distracting us with promises and hoping to stave off the inevitable - popular discontent.
The ongoing protests say a different story altogether.
There is a sense of reductionism to the way we present a crisis.
The latest proposal to tax farmers should have a broader plan to increase their income first.
The blame falls finally on the farmers themselves!
Such band-aids in the past have crippled Indian farming and helped governments avoid uncomfortable reforms.
