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How Punjabs Rural Women, Neck-Deep in Debt, Are Trapped in Microloan Cycles RBI regulations to check over-borrowing or ghost borrowers have failed to deliver, catching women in a cruel cycle of taking loans to repay loans. A group of women in Mansas Joga village in Punjab say most of them are in extreme mental distress due to loan overburden and inability to repay. Photo: Vivek Gupta Reportage18/Feb/2021 Mansa/Sangrur/Barnala: “I feel like ending my life but who will look after my kids,â�...

Soldiers, workers, cultivators: Voices from the frontlines of India’s extraordinary farm protests A newsletter called the Trolley Times has been capturing the diversity of voices at the protests outside Delhi. Jan 26, 2021 · 09:00 am Farmers sit on a tractor during a protest against the newly passed farm bills at Singhu border near Delhi, India, December 5. | Reuters/Adnan Abidi Since November 25, hundreds and thousands of farmers have been sitting at the door of Ind...