1. This was from the time a New India had not yet been born in 2014.
About nine years into journalism that, I had switched to DNA in 2005 in the launch team as Vidarbha correspondent, reporting the region for the Mumbai daily. 2. My focus was steadfastly on the continuing farmers’ suicides and a deepening agrarian distress, and the Congress governments were worried but open to steps that would mitigate the crisis.
It was the time when suicides and agrarian distress had peaked to unfathomable level.