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11.03.2012 |

Revealing Vidarbha’s plight: ’Cotton for my shroud’

Story of debt-ridden Vidarbha farmers in one of the India’s richest state, Maharashtra, has been told many times. The burdening figure of quarter of a million farmers buried in the region’s ’cotton-field graveyard’ since 1995 tells how an agriculturally productive region can turn into a death-trap just because of the government’s ill-conceived policies and inaction. But, capturing a disaster spread over almost two decades of time wrap is not easy.

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