“Women will continue to lead the struggle against farm laws”

January 18 is celebrated each year as Mahila Kisan Diwas, or Women Farmers’ Day, in India. This year, women farmers in the thick of struggles against the farm laws expressed their determination to continue the fight

January 20, 2021 by Peoples Dispatch

18 January is celebrated each year as Mahila Kisan Diwas, or Women Farmers’ Day, in India. This year, women farmers’ across India demonstrated to reassert their status as farmers, and their place in the ongoing farmers’ struggle against the three laws passed by the far-right Narendra Modi government.