India, Aug. 1 -- "Jab mitti maa hai, to uska daam kyun firangi tay karein?" "Jab hamare haathon mein hal hai, to daam ka hisaab bhi toh hamare haathon mein ho!"
These aren't just rhetorical questions - they are the burning voice of every Indian farmer whose sweat irrigates this nation's economy. It is a cruel paradox that in a country where agriculture is sacred and cooperatives are the spine of rural life, the prices of fertilisers are decided in foreign boardrooms. Bharat, with the largest agricultural cooperative structure and the second-largest arable land in the world, still depends on Morocco, the US, and Russia to nourish its fields. The irony is heartbreaking, and the injustice unbearable.
Behind this invisible oppression lies a c...