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Vines of debt [1]

WHILE writing out the receipt for Pandurang Kadam's onion crop on April 19, the trader did not realise that it would be used as forensic evidence. The next day Pandurang returned to the Lasalgaon market and set himself on fire. The town watched in shock as Pandurang burned in the yard where a thousand farmers' hopes are extinguished every day. In his pocket, they recovered the receipt.

Publication Date: 
08/09/2006
Dionne Bunsha [2]
Frontline (Chennai) [3]
Tags:
Grapes [4], Farmers [5], Maharashtra [6], Nasik [7], Debt [8]
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