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Invisible and Voiceless

By Kalpana Sharma After a poor monsoon season, much of India now appears to be headed into a serious drought. In more than 12,000 villages in Maharashtra state, crops have withered. Farmers are struggling. And the summer heat has not yet even arrived. The state government has already predicted that this will be the worst drought since 1972, a drought that many people have forgotten but not those who till the land and know the price it extracted from them. Often, in the media, the [...]