Farm and Forest

A test for the Forest Rights Act in Assam

Eviction notices issued to four Taungya villages in Nagaon district have reignited questions about historical injustice, forest governance and the state's obligation to recognise forest rights before displacement

Center-Farmer talks: Next round on Wednesday, December 9

Farmers are firm on their demands, it is the government that needs time

Support grows for Farmers’ struggle

Farmers’ movement carries on in full force gaining more and more supporters from different parts of India and abroad

Farmers Protest 2020: Reading the revolution

A selection of columns, opinions that recorded, analysed the biggest on ground protests since the anti-CAA-NRC-NPR movement

Farmers’ Protest: International pressure mounts on India

After Canadian PM, UK MPs back Indian farmers

In solidarity with his roots, Haryana youth rides tractor to wedding!

Hailing from a farmers’ family, the young businessman said he and his partner wished to express their solidarity with farmers during their ongoing movement against the central government’s black laws.

Farm laws: Delhi Bar Council speaks up against judicial power given to executive

The letter to the PM states that “this will seriously jeopardise the interest of public as getting justice at the doors of bureaucracy is far from reality”

All or nothing! Farmers assert they will not back down on demand for withdrawal of laws

Stating that repression, threats and intimidation will not deter their resolve, farmers have yet again reiterated their demand for the withdrawal of the three agriculture laws of the central government.

When sports stars, politicians return awards citing betrayal of farmers, the world notices

Parkash Singh Badal returns Padma Vibhushan, over 50 renowned sports persons will return awards too

Gov’t appears to soften stand as farmers remain persistent

Farmers demand that an early Parliament session be held to repeal the laws as Delhi borders remain clogged with growing number of relentless protesters

Go ahead, call me a Khalistani!   

A Sikh journalist based in Canada writes about the unfairness of dubbing protesting Sikh farmers as Khalistani

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