User: leigh Topic: Suicides
Category: Suicides By Region :: Maharashtra
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The mockingbird of Peepli (Cached) 1.9.2010 Mint: Latest
Peepli [Live] doesn’t mock farmers; it mocks us--consumers, anchors, politicians, bureaucrats --and our callousness
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The mockingbird of Peepli (Cached) 1.9.2010 Mint: Latest
Peepli [Live] doesn’t mock farmers; it mocks us--consumers, anchors, politicians, bureaucrats --and our callousness
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Review: Peepli (Live) is a missed opportunity (Cached) 30.8.2010 DNA: Top News
The film, seen like any other movie, is good, but in the context of discussion on it, it fails to meet those expectations and inexplicably stops - every time it promises to - short of entering into serious satirical depths.
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'Govt must raise MSP for cotton' (Cached) 30.8.2010 TOI: All Headlines
'Govt must raise MSP for cotton'
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State to fund education of debt-ridden farmers' children (Cached) 30.8.2010 Hindustan Times: News
The state government has decided to fund educational expenses of children from more than four lakh farmers' families facing financial troubles, in six Vidarbha districts.
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“Peepli Live”, a realistic depiction of village life: Advani 30.8.2010 Hindu: National
Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani on Sunday praised Aamir Khan’s film Peepli Live for its “realistic depiction of village life,” but wished that the filmmake...
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PM watches Aamir Khan`s `Peepli Live`! (Cached) 30.8.2010 Zee News : India National
Taking a break from his busy schedule, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today watched Aamir Khan`s Bollywood film `Peepli Live`, a scathing satire on farmers` suicide.
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Prime Minister watches 'Peepli Live' (Cached) 30.8.2010 NDTV
Prime Minister watches 'Peepli Live'
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Prime minister watches Aamir Khan's Peepli Live 29.8.2010 DNA: Top News
The film, starring a clutch of theatre actors with a debutante director in Anusha Rizvi, deals with the growing divide between rural and urban India through the story of Natha, a landless farmer.
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PM watches 'Peepli Live' (Cached) 29.8.2010 New Kerala: World News
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Shiv Sena not involved in 'settlement' issues: Uddhav Thackeray (Cached) 29.8.2010 DNA: Mumbai
Sharad Pawar had yesterday alleged that the opposition parties in Maharashtra deliberately ask questions about builders' dealings in the assembly and later approach the same builders and 'settle' the issues.
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PM Manmohan Singh to watch Aamir Khan's 'Peepli Live' tomorrow (Cached) 28.8.2010 DNA: India
The prime minister will watch the movie alongwith his family members and some top officials of the prime minister's office.
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PM to watch 'Peepli Live' Sunday (Cached) 28.8.2010 New Kerala: World News
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Food security 28.8.2010 Hindu: Opinion
The article “Food security — by definition” (Aug. 27) exposes our rulers' scant regard and contempt for the underprivileged while drafting laws. That the Maharashtra govern...
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Food security — by definition 26.8.2010 Hindu: Lead
Maharashtra ended famine forever by passing an Act that deleted the word ‘famine' from all laws of the State.
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First farmer suicide in drought-hit Bengal (Cached) 21.8.2010 Hindustan Times: News
Rural indebtedness has claimed its first reported victim in West Bengal this year after having wreaked havoc in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
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Sops for farmers: State plans textile parks in cotton belt (Cached) 18.8.2010 Hindustan Times: News
The state government will come up with textile parks in the cotton belt under a comprehensive textile policy that is still in the making.
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�Peepli Live� irks Vidarbha farmers 18.8.2010 Deccan Herald: National
The angry widows of farmers who had committed suicide set afire an effigy of the actor in a Vidarbha village, which has reported thousands of suicides by debt-ridden farmers.The farmers were incensed at the film for suggesting that farmers commit suicide to gain compensation. They have demanded that Aamir make a clarification or his film be banned. Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti convener Kishore Tiwari objected to a scene which shows a brother telling a farmer to commit suicide so that he can avail compensation. “Such depiction is not only false, but also insensitive,” he said.
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ಅಮೀರ್ ಖಾನ್ ಚಿತ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ವಿದರ್ಭ ರೈತರ ವಿರೋಧ (Cached) 17.8.2010 Thats Kannada
ಅಮೀರ್ ಖಾನ್ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣದ 'ಪೀಪ್ಲಿ ಲೈವ್' ಚಿತ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ಮಹಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರದ ವಿದರ್ಭದ ರೈತರು ತೀವ್ರ ವಿರೋಧ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಪಡಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವ ವಿದರ್ಭದ ಸಾವಿರಾರು ರೈತರಿಗೆ ಈ ಚಿತ್ರ ಅಪಚಾರವೆಸಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಪ್ರತಿಭಟಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ರೈತರ ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆ ಪ್ರಕರಣವನ್ನು ಈ ಚಿತ್ರಹಾಸ್ಯಾಸ್ಪದವಾಗಿಸಿದೆ ಎಂಬುದು ಅವರ ವಿರೋಧಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗಿದೆ.ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವ ರೈತರ ಪತ್ನಿಯರು ಮತ್ತು ರೈತರು ರಸ್ತೆಗಿಳಿದು ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆ ನಡೆಸಿದರು.
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Vidarbha farmers for ban on Peepli Live (Cached) 17.8.2010 IndiaInfo.com
Farmers in Vidarbha are out in the street. They are protesting against Aamir Khan for wrongly portraying farmers' suicides in his film Peepli Live.
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