The Plight of India's Famers

Episode 14: Mukesh Ray, a scholar with a Masters in Social Work from the TATA Institute of Social Sciences in India, works in movements working to curb India's large agrarian crisis that has resulted in the suicidal death of over 140,000 farmers in the past ten years. Born and raised in Orissa, India, an area facing many social and agrarian problems, Mukesh Ray is determined to change the current system from the inside out. Interview by journalist and sustainability educator Karly Burch in India, February 2007. For further questions, please feel free to contact Mukesh Ray at [email protected].