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Unlike the populations of European colonising countries, which grabbed global land resources on an unprecedented scale, displaced peasants and workers in developing countries today have nowhere to go. Here, migrant labourers from rural Karnataka carry firewood to their dwellings in Bangalore.-G.R.N. SOMASHEKAR

Agrarian distress

The farmers' struggle against land acquisition only shows that from passive forms of protest they have turned to active forms of resistance.

A world of distress

AS the outstanding Marxist economist Paul Baran had pointed out in The Political Economy of Growth, what is cooked in the kitchen is not decided in th

At Karrai village in Madhya Pradesh's Sheopur district. Eighty-seven per cent of people in rural India do not get the basic requirement of 2,400 calories a day.-A.M. FARUQUI

Neoliberal roots

The agrarian crisis can be traced to policies prescribed by the IMF and the World Bank and faithfully carried out by successive governments.

End of an engagement

Alice Thorner, 1918-2005.

Witness to a revolution

William Hinton, 1919-2004.

The immediate way out

The depth of indebtedness of the farmer and the nature of the agrarian crisis have not been fully realised by the State government. It should take mea

Potatoes dumped in the field along the Hapur-Garhmukteshwar highway in western Uttar Pradesh after the farmer failed to find a buyer. Even India Shining campaigners agree that Feel Good has bypassed the agricultural sector.-RAJEEV BHATT

RURAL INDIA IN RUINS

The gains made in agriculture and food availability over four decades have been wiped out in a single decade of reform, and nearly nine-tenths of the