Date:01/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/01/stories/2008020157050100.htm

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What answer to our woes?

Photo: V. Sudershan

Allow us to live: Family members, including children, of Punjab farmers who committed suicide, protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Thursday against the “anti-farmer” policies of the Central and Punjab governments. The farmers ended their lives owing to mounting debts and harassment from moneylenders. —