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Kunal Shah
Articles by Kunal Shah

What does the ongoing drought teach us

Six hundred million of India’s 1.2 billion depend on agriculture and related means for livelihood. The sector was already distraught, with 41 farmers reportedly committing suicide daily on an average since 1995. Migration of the socio-economically deprived, from the largely-agrarian rural India to urban locations for survival had touched 15 million eight years ago.
Updated on May 25, 2016 12:49 IST