Gurmehar Kaur
@thekaurfactor
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🔴 Striving Sikh Humanist 🔴 Dares to Dream, Dares to Trust, and on a happy day even Dares to Sing 🔴 E-mail: [email protected]
Joined October 2009
خواب جتنا بڑا ہوگا اور ہم جتنے لوگوں کو اس میں شامل کریں گے اتنا اچھا ہے . The Bigger Our Dream And The More People We Can Include In It The Better. Khwaab Jitnaa Badaa Hogaa Aur Hum Jitnay Logon Ko Ismay Shaamil Karaingay Utna Achaa Hai. God’s Children ALL 🤗
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Women aren’t always better human beings than men but they are generally more resilient. And a woman with love in her heart is pretty near unbreakable. Sanjana Kapoor may you continue to soar and inspire sistaa 🤗
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❤️🕉️ Ganesh Chaturthi ki haardik shubh kaamnaein. Pratham devta humaaray 🙏🏽 May the lord of auspicious beginnings bless us all ☺️. #GaneshChaturthi2025 .#GanpatiBappa .#Ganpati
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Would you trade 10 years of labor and residence for a roundtrip to our Moon?.
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🐿️ I’ve always felt squirrels are my spirit animal - lots of nervous energy and always up to something but largely benign and endearing - even if I say so myself ☺️ Have a cheery, productive day y’all.
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Zakir Khan with Hasan Minhaj at Madison Square Garden, New York. @Zakirism and @patriotact tawajjo 🤝
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We return, finally, to Shambhu and Radha. Their adversaries were visible-landlords, famine, moneylenders. They could be fought, endured, negotiated. Today's farmer faces faceless systems: algorithmic debt flags, procurement bottlenecks, volatile weather. Against these, suicide.
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The only way forward is to make risk social again. Punjab's entry into PMFBY must be leveraged into a new standard: automatic, time-bound payouts using drone and satellite data, with full tenant inclusion. Diversification must be protected through assured procurement and.
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Policy responses have so far been palliative, not transformative. Debt waivers offer episodic relief but are partial and quickly undone. Ex-gratia compensation is delayed and humiliating. Credit expansion deepens exposure without cushioning risk. Insurance arrived late and.
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The question, then, why suicide and not struggle, can be answered. Liberalization individualized risk, compressed time, and amplified shame. Masculinity and honour privatized failure onto the male body. Ecological volatility, without systemic hedges, locked farmers into the.
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Policy responses have so far been palliative, not transformative. Debt waivers offer episodic relief but are partial and quickly undone. Ex-gratia compensation is delayed and humiliating. Credit expansion deepens exposure without cushioning risk. Insurance arrived late and.
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RT @PardonMyTake: Tuesday night max woke Big Cat up with a flashlight at 2am because he thought we were going to get sued. @forthepeople ht….
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The economic squeeze is relentless. High-yield seeds, fertilizers, diesel, and mechanization have entrenched cash-intensive farming. Subsidies, once protective, are strained; input costs rise faster than output prices. The MSP system stabilizes wheat and paddy, but it is a.
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Debt in Punjab is not only financial but symbolic. Loans finance tractors, weddings, private schools, and IELTS coaching. When crops fail or migration dreams stall, the collapse is economic and cultural at once. Masculinity encodes izzat as provision and repayment; default is.
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Deaths cluster in Malwa not by coincidence but by structural design. This is the epicentre of cotton tenancy, where annual rents of Rs. 35,000-50,000 per acre must be paid upfront. When pests or floods destroy crops, tenants lose both harvest and prepaid rent. Because tenancy is.
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Every ecological shock compounds these liabilities. The March 2022 heatwave reduced wheat yields by double digits, an event scientists attributed to climate change. Cotton has suffered serial devastation: whitefly in 2015, pink bollworm in 2021, each prompting protests and.
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Punjab's farm credit architecture reveals this shift with painful clarity. By 2022-23, institutional farm debt stood at $73,673 crore, and the average outstanding per farm household was among the highest in India at {2.03 lakh. Outstanding loans under the Kisan Credit Card scheme.
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Why did yesterday's peasant struggle while today's farmer drinks pesticide? The answer is not cultural decline but political-economic transformation. Liberalization restructured the moral economy of risk. Where once failure was collective and negotiable, today it is individual.
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this song has been stuck in my head all day and now it's stuck in yours
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