The Daily Delicious for May 13, 2008

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(AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Debt woes drive thousands of Indian farmers to suicide
“Crushed by debts most Westerners would deem inconsequential, farmers … killed themselves at a rate of 48 a day between 2002 and 2006.” —Priya
(tags: India(n) agriculture economics)

— Nirali Magazine
May 12, 2008

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