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3 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Latest propaganda spin is that farmers are enemies of the environment. And no word on massively polluting industries.
Show me where it says in the farm laws that these laws will make farming practices better for the environment. I’
If that was the fulcrum of the laws then why didn’t the govt lead with that? Why bring that angle in now?
And water tables are “vanishing” because of a cluster of factors. Most irrigation water in India is fresh water mixed with sewage.

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5 Feb
I’m going to do a slightly substantial thread in Sadanand Dhume’s piece for @WSJ because I am quite disturbed at the flex the debate is taking. The problems in the piece go far beyond a debate on how “gentle” the govt has been on the farmers. Thread. 👇🏽
This causation is misrepresented. There’s a history to this. During the Green Revolution Punjab and Haryana moved to the wheat-paddy cultivation cycle from their traditional crops. This was encouraged and as we all know from CBSE textbooks, was done in the national interest. Image
At that time sustainability wasn’t a watchword but by 1980 a massive decline in the water table was noted. Why? Because paddy required five times more irrigation than wheat. So if you irrigate a wheat crop six times in one season, paddy will require 30 irrigations.
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1 Feb
Something that just struck me as I’m prepping for a lecture. The Indian state right now has trouble reading people as rational, choice-making entities. It finds it easier to read people as ethnic entities because that’s how it has shaped its own discourse.
If you present yourself as a non-ethnic entity, it has massive trouble with you. Anyone who wants to transcend their worldview becomes a problem. Just a thought. Still working on it.
So when Sikh farmers come forward with a policy/economic issue, the state has to crunch it into an ethnic issue before it can respond.
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30 Jan
What is the price ORF is willing to pay for a policy? Image
The piece says “The reforms that have so incensed protesters go further in addressing Indian agriculture’s most intractable problems than any previously contemplated. Those changes need to be protected, not abandoned.”
And “What’s at risk isn’t just a couple of laws, but India’s commitment to the transition to a more environmentally sustainable and equitable growth model.”
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29 Jan
I have no idea what this is doing In The Indian govt’s Economic Survey but ok let’s go scratch our backs against a tree.
I think the 800 odd migrant workers who died because they were stranded in the heat without transport or food would disagree with this opening para of the Indian govt’s economic survey.
Bayesian updating? They most certainly didn’t do any updation. Ye log samjhe hain ki yehi log gamewa theory pade hain kya?#EconomicSurvey2021
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29 Jan
Just a thought. The damage to institutions in a decade of BJP rule will have been so thorough and awful, that whoever comes next will have to have a road map to build them back up. And I’m not sure we have those sorts of visionaries in India anymore.
India was built on the foundation of accommodative politics and coercion. Now it’s just pure coercion and bullying. There is massive distrust in all state institutions and rightly so, given how they no longer act independently of the ruling ideology.
I personally don’t think the BJP regime will last. But who knows.

What worries me at night is how to build India back and restore Democratic institutions and systems of accountability. If your systems of accountability at an compromised then it’s Lord of the Flies.
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26 Jan
I think everyone needs to read this piece. Deep Sidhu campaigned for Sunny Deol (BJP). He’s behind the flag hoisting incident. The farmers had been trying to sideline him but he’s persisted. Think the hoisting should not be connected to main protest.

m.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/we…
According to this piece the March was to happen on the outer ring road. Deep and company decided to take their show inside Delhi.
He is also the man that Barkha interviewed and we all felt bad for him. He’s apparently since then being trying to commandeer the agitation and give it an identity spin. Farmers protest main body has not been happy about this.
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