Children In Farming
“My younger brother goes to school, I stay back with my older sister to help my father on the field.
“My younger brother goes to school, I stay back with my older sister to help my father on the field.
“Yes the power looms are everywhere but I really don’t know how to use them. And at this age, I’m
All our belongings were washed away, luckily our houses are intact. We work as labourers on the fields and at
Siddharamaya, a farmer in Ramanagara, Karnataka, “I have about 13000 sq ft of land and I can hardly grow anything
I ask him, a tribal in Odisha, “what day is today?” He says, “Tuesday”. I ask “what is Independence Day?”
“I’m taking my daughter to a movie this evening, she has been wanting to go to one for a very
Somashekar signs the bid slip accepting ₹235 as the price for a kilo of cocoon at the e-auction centre at
“I didn’t get the price I was hoping for, the prices have fallen. They say the quality of the cocoon
In 2015, Sunanda, a farmer, widow of Nagendra, set fire to her sugarcane field in H Malligere, Mandya, Karnataka and
In 2015 I got a call from a farmer in Mandya, Mr. K Boraiah about a spate of suicide in