Conversation with Jaideep Hardikar
Saturday, 23 Oct 2021
Date:
Saturday, 23 Oct 2021
Time:
05:00 PM
Venue:
Mimosa, Chitnavis Center, Civil Lines
Author
Jaideep Hardikar
Jaideep Hardikar is a Nagpur-based senior journalist, writer, researcher and a core member of the People's Archive of Rural India. He has worked with The Hitavada, DNA and The Telegraph among other publications. He has reported extensively from Vidarbha on farmer suicides and the cotton crisis. The recipient of a number of journalism fellowships, he is also the author of A Village Awaits Doomsday.
Summary
About the Book
One morning in 2014, Ramrao Panchleniwar, an ordinary cotton grower in Maharashtra's infamous Vidarbha region, consumed two bottles of pesticide in a bid to commit suicide. But he miraculously survived.
In Ramrao, rural journalist Jaideep Hardikar attempts to put a face to India's unending farm crisis with his story. He takes the reader on a journey of the everyday life of an Indian farmer, his daily struggles, his desperation to come out of his situation, his inability and many failings, the quagmire of issues he faces, and how he comes to a pass where he chooses to put an end to it all.
The result of years of committed reportage, this is an evocative read that rescues an ordinary life from obscurity and turns it into an essential biography for our times.
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