KALAMB (OSMANABAD): Ten years ago, Vidya More's life went up in flames. Broken by years of crop failure and mounting debt, her husband Sahadev doused their tiny hut in kerosene and set it ablaze. But Vidya was not ready to give up. She threw her children out of the hut and jumped out. She wanted to live, and wanted her children to have a shot at life. She survived with injuries, and started rebuilding her life from the ashes.
Vidya is one of thousands of widows left behind by distressed farmers in Maharashtra's Marathwada and Vidarbha regions who were driven to suicide by the extreme agrarian crisis. In the three years between 2014 and 2016, nearly 3,880 farmers ended their lives here.
Read more of this promising story by Radheyshyam Jadav published in Times of India....
