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How Punjab's 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 Mansa's 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,” says Sukhdeep Kaur, from Joga village in Mansa district. She took her first micro group loan o...

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 India’s capital to mark their protest against the Modi government’s newly passed farm laws. On Rep...