Are the farm laws needed?
Passionate. Illuminating. Informed.
As protests continue, MEKHALA KRISHNAMURTHY — anthropologist & farm expert — takes on the question at the very heart of the matter.
If everyone agrees reform is required, why such intense pushback on the laws? Is this hypocrisy? Are farmers being irrational? Or is there a deep design defect?
And what is the positive alternative?
To declutter fact from myth, fear from frenzy.