Farmers agitation: Lessons to be learnt April 17, 2021, 4:51 PM IST Dr Jagdish Batra is a senior academic, currently working as Professor of English at O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He has nearly four decades of teaching and research experience. His area of specialization is Indian English Fiction on which he has presented papers at many international conferences in Europe and South East Asia. A Rotary Study Exchange Scholar to USA, Dr Batra has published eight books besides some sixty research papers and a number of general articles/blogs etc. LESS... MORE At long last, the Home Ministry has veered round to the view that the protest sites at the borders of Delhi should be cleared of protestors. The news must have come as a big relief for ordinary people in the region, and maybe even for a section of the protestors who were willy-nilly keeping company with others. Why did the government not undertake such a decision earlier and what gains or losses occurred meantime due to this policy of procrastination on the part of both the Government and the farmers’ groups need to be discussed in society to derive right lessons for the working of democracy.