From the archive record
A Tamil Nadu farmer protests and addresses media "For the past 40 days, we are sitting at Jantar Mantar Raod, we are eating at Jantar Mantar Road, we are agitating on Jantar Mantar Road, we are sleeping on Jantar Mantar Road, we are in a democratic country... the honourable Prime Minister must come here or call us to come to his office. Nobody cares about... whether we eat snakes, even when the Supreme Court ordered the release of water to the Kaveri river, no action has been taken yet... So that is the reason that we will drink our urine..." Over the last 39 days, they have shaved half of their moustache and head, kept mice and snakes in their mouth, conducted mock funerals, flogged themselves and carried skulls of other farmers, who had committed suicide due to debt pressure. This footag