India: how far will the anger of farmers go?
Protests against new agricultural laws in Singhu, near Delhi (November 2020).
REUTERS - DANISH SIDDIQUI
By: Romain Auzouy
1 min
They have been "sieging New Delhi" for many weeks.
Tens of thousands of farmers gathered at the gates of the Indian capital to express their protest after a series of laws liberalizing the sector.
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What are the risks of these reforms in a country where more than one inhabitant in two lives from agriculture?
What do they say about the evolution of India today?
How far can this movement go, which directly targets the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
With our guest
Catherine Bros,
lecturer at Gustave Eiffel University and researcher affiliated with the Dial laboratory at the Institute for Development Research (IRD).
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