Farmer’s leaders during the protest against the (UPA) government land acquisition policy in New Delhi on Tuesday, 18 October 2011.Thousands of farmers demanded that UPA government lives up its promise of guaranteeing food security, the increasing cost of cultivation and ever-rising food inflation, with the increasing rate of farmer suicides evidence of their hardships.

Photographer: A Sarthak

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