In Tamil Nadu, debt more than drought is driving farmers to suicide
(WorldNews India)

The bizarre protests were bound to grab media attention and the protesting Tamil Nadu farmers did precisely that for much of the past month when they descended on Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to underline their plight back home. They staged sit-ins with human skulls, ate grass, held mice in their mouth and even threatened to drink their own urine as they sought to highlight what they described as dire distress in times of an unprecedented drought ravaging the state. Having shocked and shaken the country’s conscience, the farmers’ have taken a break in their agitation — warning of returning to the Capital later in the month if demand for loan waivers was not immediately met....