The Needle’s Eye
Grasping the Nettle or Nettling the Graspers: Modi’s Ryot Act
The Indian ryot, or peasant cultivator, has always been a political football. When we think of a farmer most of us think, this man is getting subsidised water, electricity, seeds, fertilizer. The government buys his harvest. The government is keen to gift him a bank account under the Jan Dhan Yojana, even if he has…
