Harvesting Hope in the Suicide Zone Harvesting Hope in the Suicide Zone

Harvesting Hope in the Suicide Zone

Women Who Challenged Drought, Death and Destiny

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Publisher Description

As the flames danced all around her small hut, Vidya More had to make a hard choice. She could follow her husband into the fire along with her children. Or she could save herself and her little children from a terrible death.



Acclaimed journalist Radheshyam Jadhav brings to readers true inspiring stories of women farmers and farm widows, like Vidya and many more, from the 'farmer suicide zone' of Maharashtra. These women have battled the tremendous odds-of poverty, misogyny and inequity-stacked against them to herald a silent revolution to overcome agrarian crisis. These feisty women wake up every morning and battle for survival. Suicide, unlike their husbands, is a luxury they can't afford.



Extensively researched along with personal interviews, the book captures the women's stories and constructive struggle and how they discovered in themselves endless reserves of strength. While the men are driven to despair and death by debts, the women have fought their battles and found answers to the crisis. These simple, and often uneducated, women have developed their own methodology and science to manage and tackle drought and are experimenting with every possible option to give themselves and their families a life of dignity. They have taken up tough challenges and are sowing determination and hard work to achieve their dreams.



The book captures their belief that dreams often come true. And hope is what keeps life going.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2018
18 November
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
196
Pages
PUBLISHER
Bloomsbury India
SELLER
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
SIZE
8.7
MB
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