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		estaseuropano on Jan 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking fa... Even if this were actually true at larger scale (than at most a few isolated cases played up), the comparison of the righteous anger of starving farmers with that of propaganda-fed Americans is not really helpful.

ngc248 on Jan 31, 2021 [–]

These are not starving farmers. Punjab has the richest farmers, I feel you are just associating the word poor, starving with farmers.

davchana on Feb 1, 2021 | [–]

Any sources? Punjab has one of the highest suicide rate in farmers. 3300 in last 10 years [1].

[1] https://borgenproject.org/farmer-suicide-in-india/

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