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Eddapadi Palaniswamy

Destroying Rice Bowl

Having acquiesced to the Centre’s proposal to set up 489 hydrocarbon wells and petrochemical industries in the Cauvery delta region, the rice bowl of south India, and prosecuting farmers for protesting against the move, he declared the region an “ecologically sensitive agricultural zone” on 10 February.

Oppressed in TN

The freedom of press index maintained by Reporters Without Borders ranks India, the world’s largest democracy, 136th out of 180…