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100,000 Farmers Commit Suicide.

July 08, 2006
Pankaj Mishra has an Op-Ed on the myth of the Indian boom in the NY Times. This quote leaves me breathless:

In the countryside, where 70 percent of India's population lives, the government has reported that about 100,000 farmers committed suicide between 1993 and 2003.

Anybody heard about this genocide before? Absurd and horrid.
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