Ten Minutes For Me Too Mr Chidambaram

- Gita, with her 4 month old kid
KOPA MANDAVI VISIT of VJAS - GITA WANTS ANSWERS FROM the Wise People of SOCIETY
Kishor Tiwari visited KopaMandvi, yet another village on National Highway no.7

"I was shocked to look at pathetic condition of 23 year widow of Sharvan Chichodkar, a Vidarbha cotton farmer, who committed suicide.

She asked "who killed my husband?"
Gita narrated .. "It was constant worry of family debt and food starvation, that forced him to kill himself.
After Sharvan, nobody is there to look after me.
I will have to feed my kid and old father in laws.
We are fed up with this crisis."..
Sharvan is third farmer suicide in KopaMandvi.
More than 100 farm suicides in this belt in last 4 years.
All GM cotton growers in Vidarbha are in debt, as per Shri Kishor Tiwari of VJAS.

Indian Finance Minister, Shri Chidambaram, had high profile photos and media coverage with top Indian industrialists, like Ratan Tata, on eve of Congress 2007 Budget. He did not have even 10 minutes to spare for debt ridden and suicidal Vidarbha cotton farmers, as he was too busy putting final touches to the Sensex Budget in New Delhi.

Collecting Rural Women Narratives

As of now, there are no rural narratives of wives and daughters of suicidal farmers up on the blog :

http://www.zubani.blogspot.com/

Some people have offered to collect some of the narratives. One hopes there can be many more people who begin to collect them, translate them to English, and to other languages, and put them up on the Internet and build up the the Zubani Blog as a resource for all who are concerned and affected.

The process of collecting narratives, is absolutely open and will continue to be so for many years, because one can see no end to more and more such narratives. There is no concept of an editor for these narratives.

Everyone who contributes, is a self moderated editor. We will keep learning from the narratives, and hopefully these narratives will point a way forward for the future of science and technology innovations, sustainability and creativity, in Indian farming and agriculture and indeed rural life, in coming years.

Anyone with basic Internet access, can post the narratives, from anywhere in India. Feel free to experiment, and there is no need to be afraid of anyone on this earth.

Without fearlessness and without openness there is no future. Find your inspiration from these women and daughters, whose husbands have consumed a can of pesticides, and left them alone, to fend for themselves, and everyone will begin to ask questions of themselves.
What are we doing, Where are we going ? Are our actions of any help to those who are living in the villages of India ?