Mass suicide – more than 1500 Indian farmers chose death over debt

My day usually begins with vats of coffee and a couple of hours of visiting news websites and wire services – both foreign and domestic.

Most searches result in the expected ‘buzz’ topics - those on the tips of everyone’s tongues and often the lead stories for the many forms of media.

Now and again, however, there comes an item tucked quietly beneath the smothering blanket of information overload.

Yesterday’s report from the agricultural state of Chhattisgarh in central India is one such story.

Faced with dissipating water levels and massive debt, more than 1500 farmers in this once-fertile area of rice cultivation have chosen death over debt.

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