How a broken village became a model for ending India’s farmer suicide crisis
In the 1980s, “Hiware Bazar, a village tucked deep inside the western Indian state of Maharashtra, was a crime-ridden backwater, desperately poor and largely abandoned by government agencies,” writes Puja Changoiwala in FERN’s latest story, published with Grist. But a new village leader, elected in 1989, convinced residents to rebuild and revitalize the community. “Through… » Read More
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