Dear Abhishek:

i do hope decisions to ease the pain of Indian farmers are made.

More of my thoughts about helping the farmers, some specific ideas and some general as the suggestion I already made:

International organizations, such as the UN will intervene in the business of a particular country if they decision makers (in the UN) consider the suffering of the people … catastrophic enough. They have their guidelines- I am supposing- of what constitutes a suffering severe enough to justify interfering with a country’s internal affairs, like human rights issues.

Then I was thinking, the Indian government is not likely to listen to foreigners, people of other countries commenting on the country’s affairs and are more likely (although often not…) to listen to Indian citizens expressing outrage about what is happening in the country. So letting the decision makers know your outrage as an individual, gathering signatures, things like that… as seems to have been already done.

Also, if let’s say, a group of the currently suffering farmers are chosen to receive money for life improvement of all farmers, the following is going to happen: if there is a possibility of abuse of that money, some of the now suffering farmers, the now victims, will become the victimizes of other farmers, and the money received by them will end up in a Swiss bank for their personal use, with a rationalization like: I suffered enough, now it is my turn to enjoy! This is human nature. So management of money directed at improving the life of farmers has to be micromanaged by conscientious people… that’s a tough one.

It seems to me that the loans to the farmers, well, this is easy to figure, that the interests on those loans have to come down significantly. That is easy to figure, that it needs to be done!

Please post again with updates and your thoughts!

anita