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A crash course in India’s Farmer Crisis

June 16, 2017Did you know?, Numbers don't lie, Tales of corruption and incompetenceagriculture, Andhra Pradesh, BJP, Chidambaram, Congress, corruption, crime, deceit, democracy, elections, ethics, farmer suicide, farmers, gmo, governance, Haryana, health, hindutva, hunger strike, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manmohan Singh, media, microfinance, Modi, Mumbai, NCP, Orissa, parliament, politics, Punjab, rural india, TDP, Telengana, TRS, women rightsadmin

Jan 2021: India's farming crisis has been on for decades and what we are seeing right now is just the tipping point of systemic issues that have existed forever. It is completely reasonable to hold the government of the day accountable irrespective of which political party is in power. Here's a post from 2017 explaining the various components of this crisis. India's leading rural journalist (and unfortunately one of our only ones), P. Sainath, recently Read more [...]

The Forgotten Wikileaks

April 30, 2011Did you know?, Our favourite political personalities, Tales of corruption and incompetenceAMIM, Andhra Pradesh, Azhagiri, bribe, Chidambaram, Congress, corruption, DMK, elections, MPs, Owaisi, Tamil Nadu, wikileaksadmin

Most of the Wikileaks released by The Hindu focussed on Swiss Bank accounts and the Confidence Motion. However there was a very interesting leak* highlighting the latest innovations by Indian netas in bribing voters. Wah Sarkar presents to you 3 of our MPs along with their state of the art bribing techniques. 1. The Newspaper Briber M.K.Azhagiri (DMK) - MP from Madurai, Tamil Nadu ; Total Assets: 19 crores+ ;Union Minister for Chemicals Read more [...]