TIME Features Women Leading India's Farmer Protests On Its Cover
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published March 06, 2021 | 11:25 PM
Ahead of International Women's Day, Indian women farmers protesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's agricultural laws at New Delhi's borders for over three months have been featured on the international cover of American TIME magazine's latest edition
NEW YORK, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 6th Mar, 2021 ) :Ahead of International Women's Day, Indian women farmers protesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's agricultural laws at New Delhi's borders for over three months have been featured on the international cover of American TIME magazine's latest edition.
The article - 'I Cannot Be Intimidated. I Cannot Be Bought' - talks about about how women have been on the frontlines of the protest against the three farm laws, while outlining that the Supreme Court had observed that they should return home.
"In response, women farmers - mostly from the rural states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh - scrambled onto stages, took hold of microphones and roared back a unanimous "NO!", according the article, written by Nilanjana Bhowmick.
"Why should we go back? This is not just the men's protest. We toil in the fields alongside the men. Who are we - if not farmers?" Jasbir Kaur, a 74-year-old farmer from Rampur in western Uttar Pradesh, was quoted as saying.
Jasbir Kaur, who is mobilizing farmers at the Tikri protest site, said women were often not seen as farmers. "Their labour is immense but invisible. Women are changing women here. They are claiming their identities as farmers," she added.
"This law will kill us, will destroy what little we have," Amandeep Kaur, a farmer from Talwandi in Punjab, told TIME.
The women also stated they were disappointed that they were considered to be "mere care workers providing cooking and cleaning services at these sites", and not "equal stakeholders".
The cover page, titled 'On the Frontlines of India's Farmer Protest', shows women holding children while raising anti-government slogans at farmers' protest site at Tikri border.
Women's rights activist Sudesh Goyat was quoted as saying that she was the only woman from Haryana during the first few days of protests in Tikri. But after the court's comments, more and more women joined. "They came with their families," she told TIME. "They came with other women. They came alone. It's no less than a miracle."Tens of thousands of farmers have been camped outside Delhi for over three months, demanding the withdrawal of the three legislations that they say will hurt them and benefit large corporations.
The farmers believe that the new laws undermine their livelihood and open the path for the corporate sector to dominate the agricultural sector.
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