Author: Aarav Sharma

Aarav Sharma is a young political analyst and columnist with a deep interest in South Asian geopolitics, international diplomacy, and policy reform. He graduated from King's College London with a focus in global governance and gives a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between home politics and foreign affairs. His work has appeared in youth-led political events and think tank publications. Aarav is passionate about narrowing the disparity among academia and policy making.

Opinion
Opinion

When Laws Failed, Deals Succeeded: How Indian Farmers Became Collateral in a Political Vendetta

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Couldn’t break them with laws, so he sold them out with deals to the Americans. That single line captures the uneasy continuity in India’s agricultural policy over the last few years. When Indian farmers rose up against the three farm laws, they weren’t merely resisting technical reforms. They were blocking what they understood, correctly, as a structural corporate takeover of Indian agriculture. The laws were pushed with unprecedented urgency, defended with open hostility toward dissent, and finally repealed not out of conviction, but exhaustion, after a year-long agitation that shook the country and embarrassed the government globally. That defeat clearly…

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