Well-known India-born author Amitav Ghosh tweeted about the farmers’ protest march to New Delhi, on Thursday, November 29. Ghosh said that the protest march could be “the most important thing” happening in the world.
Quoting Namita Waikar’s— a volunteer for the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI)—tweet, Ghosh wrote, “This could be the most important thing happening in the world right now: India’s first mass protest in response to an ongoing climate-related agrarian crisis. Of vital significance in a region where more than a billion people will face catastrophe.”
This could be the most important thing happening in the world right now: India’s first mass protest in response to an ongoing climate-related agrarian crisis. Of vital significance in a region where more than a billion people will face catastrophe. https://t.co/wCTC8V3JHO
— Amitav Ghosh (@GhoshAmitav) November 28, 2018
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Hoping to make themselves heard in the power centre of the nation, thousands of farmers from across the country converged in the national capital on Thursday for a two-day march to press for their demands, including debt relief, remunerative prices for their produce and a special 21-day session of the Parliament to address the agrarian crisis.
The farmers, who will march to Ramlila Ground on Thursday and to Parliament Street on Friday, came from different corners of the country, including Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.
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