India’s Debt-Trap is a Death-Trap

India’s Debt-Trap is a Death-Trap

Essay, single-spaced (850 words) on the suicide epidemic in India that is taking the lives of thousands of farmers. The essay should specifically be referenced around Chapter 12 (India’s Drought Rebels) in Christian Parenti’s book, “Tropic of Chaos”. Issues to highlight include the Naxal insurgents, drought and water problems due to climate change, Monsanto and its genetically modified cotton (B2) and India’s government’s neo-liberal policies that lead to a debt-trap for its farmers/agricultural community and ultimately, death. Speak to the current continued increase in the #’s of farmers who are opting for suicide as a way to deal with it. Aside from Parenti’s book, another source should be used but it MUST be an online source only (ie news article (CNN, BBC), verified published online research, etc. Again only 850 words (+/- 50).