I'll get to
more of the new government later. Meanwhile, I have one question
to ask of the newly elected Congress-led alliance of the United
Progressive Alliance: why is Sharad Pawar being given the job of
Minister for Agriculture?
Let me tell
you a story which might help with the measure of the
man.
Not all
people, not even in Vidarbha -- India's rural suicide alley --
take their own lives as a reflection of becoming what banks call
non-performing assets. Sometimes, they brutally fight
back.
On 19 June 2006, still several days away from Manmohan Singh Mark One's visit to Vidarbha, a farmer, Vijay Thakre and his family with sticks and stones beat a moneylender and his associate to death in Pimpalgaon village of Akola district. For good measure, they hacked the moneylender with axes.
Thakre was quite angry, you see. The m
On 19 June 2006, still several days away from Manmohan Singh Mark One's visit to Vidarbha, a farmer, Vijay Thakre and his family with sticks and stones beat a moneylender and his associate to death in Pimpalgaon village of Akola district. For good measure, they hacked the moneylender with axes.
Thakre was quite angry, you see. The m
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