'We Are Not Suicide Country, Don't Want to Become Another Vidarbha,' Say Marathawada Farmers | Read

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  • Published On: April 12, 2015
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It's another spell of heavy unseasonal rain lashing across the scorched and drought-hit Marathawada landscape in Maharashtra. As we travel on the national highway, visibility has dropped to just 50 meters. But the heavens have opened up much too late. Last week in Khamgaon village in Aurangabad district, 39-year-old Eknath Khilare committed suicide. On April 4, he was found hanging from a tree in his own field.

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