Against 10,881 farm suicides reported in 2021, NCRB recorded farm suicides to be 3.7 per cent higher in 2022 when a total of 11,290 farmers and farm workers took the fatal route. In 2022, of the 5,207 farmers who took their own lives, 208 were women. Similarly, of the 6,083 farm workers who committed suicide, 611 were women. Most suicides were reported from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Maharashtra alone reported 38 per cent of the total farm suicides, recording 4,248 suicides.
Devinder Sharma, ‘Incredible India! Wilful defaulters buy properties; farmers offer to sell body organs to pay-off loans’, Bizz Buzz
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"Moose Wala could've lived anywhere he wanted. But he chose his village, his parents and his people," Mr Happy says. "He not just held on to his village identity but also sought to elevate it, despite its complexities." Mansa district, where Moose Wala's village is located, is widely seen as a backward region - it has one of the highest farmer suicide rates in Punjab and high unemployment levels and a serious groundwater crisis. "People don't want to be identified with the region - they want to leave and never come back," Mr Happy explains. "But Moose Wala was different. He took pride in his roots and his music urged listeners to proudly accept the village as home." This is captured most powerfully in Tibeyan Da Putt (Son of the sand dunes), signifying the semi-arid landscape of the region. "We do not belong to noble families/ Brought-up in the village and townships/ I don't have any existence of my own/ Yet, influential people fear me," the lyrics say.
Zoya Mateen, ‘Sidhu Moose Wala: The unsettling legacy of the rapper's protest music’, BBC
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