When you think of Putin, the first image that comes to your mind isn’t an Indian farmer. Yet, the fortunes of the kisan might be tied to the ongoing war in Ukraine, as this week’s messenger explains.
PS: we will be taking a breather for a couple of weeks and we will be back with a new and improved messenger after the break.
“1/ Wicked problems have more lives than a 🐈⬛. A 🧵 on #geopolitics and Indian #agriculture, on how the Ukraine crisis is changing the fortunes of 🇮🇳 farmers
India has just about managed to crawl out of the Covid-19 crisis, but we are not sure if there is a fourth wave awaiting us. The experience of the pandemic has exposed a broken health system. This is not the only crisis that we have had to deal with. The Covid-19-induced lockdown of 2020 and the ensuing economic recession came atop a severe slowdown in the economy, which had begun in the fourth quarter of 2017-18.
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