A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding across rural India. Pushed into
poverty and indebtedness due to increased cost of cultivation and falling market prices,
farmers are being driven to commit suicide.
More than 1.5 lakh farmers have committed
suicide across the country in the last 15 years.
Candle light Vigils are being organized all across the country from 16 November 2006, in
support of the demand that the Prime Minister of India and Indian Government, seriously
address the issue of farm debt and the real reasons behind the prevailing situation of
farmer suicides, and end its indifference to farmer suicides.
These candle light vigils are being organized by NGO's and farmer organizations across
multiple cities, towns and villages of India to wake up the sleeping Kumbhakarna -
Congress government at the Center.
To organize a candle light vigil in your area please contact the following people :
Devinder Sharma (98113-01857)
Yudhvir Singh (98681-46405)
Naresh Sirohi (98996-00011)
Bhaskar Goswami (98111-91335)
Quotations - No man is an island - " No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a
piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is
the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine
own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never
send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
- Metaphysical poem by John Donne,
Meditation XVII, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions - 1624