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    This documentary highlights the struggles of farmers in India, where over 200,000 have committed suicide in the past 10 years due to issues like crop failure and inability to repay loans. It reveals the plight of farmers and the apathy shown by richer classes. It compares the indifference of the ruling classes pursuing business-friendly policies that neglect farmers to the guests of Roman emperor Nero, who watched prisoners burn alive for entertainment. While the government rushed to help "weeping millionaires" during an economic downturn, it took 10 years for the prime minister to visit families of farmers who committed suicide.

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    This documentary highlights the struggles of farmers in India, where over 200,000 have committed suicide in the past 10 years due to issues like crop failure and inability to repay loans. It reveals the plight of farmers and the apathy shown by richer classes. It compares the indifference of the ruling classes pursuing business-friendly policies that neglect farmers to the guests of Roman emperor Nero, who watched prisoners burn alive for entertainment. While the government rushed to help "weeping millionaires" during an economic downturn, it took 10 years for the prime minister to visit families of farmers who committed suicide.

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    This documentary highlights the struggles of farmers in India, where over 200,000 have committed suicide in the past 10 years due to issues like crop failure and inability to repay loans. It reveals the plight of farmers and the apathy shown by richer classes. It compares the indifference of the ruling classes pursuing business-friendly policies that neglect farmers to the guests of Roman emperor Nero, who watched prisoners burn alive for entertainment. While the government rushed to help "weeping millionaires" during an economic downturn, it took 10 years for the prime minister to visit families of farmers who committed suicide.

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    Neros Guest

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    This documentary highlights the struggles of farmers in India, where over 200,000 have committed suicide in the past 10 years due to issues like crop failure and inability to repay loans. It reveals the plight of farmers and the apathy shown by richer classes. It compares the indifference of the ruling classes pursuing business-friendly policies that neglect farmers to the guests of Roman emperor Nero, who watched prisoners burn alive for entertainment. While the government rushed to help "weeping millionaires" during an economic downturn, it took 10 years for the prime minister to visit families of farmers who committed suicide.

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    This documentary highlights the struggles of the farmers, and the efforts of journalist Mr. P.

    Sainath.

    “In the past 10 years, 200000 farmers have committed suicide in India, but the mainstream
    media hardly reflects this.”

    The documentary progresses revealing the plight of the farmers and the extreme apathy shown
    by the richer class. The most appealing, yet appalling scenes in the movie are the hurt-filled
    poetry by the Farmer-Poet  Late Shri Krishna Kalamb, who committed suicide due to crop failure
    and being unable to repay his loans.

    Nero was an ancient Roman emperor who used to conduct one of the biggest parties ancient
    Rome had ever seen. And for the guests to enjoy the beautiful garden, Nero brought several
    prisoners at night and burnt them alive for illumination.

    The documentary compares these activities of Nero with the ruling classes of India who pursue
    business friendly policies while cruelly neglecting the farmers and the poor.

    It is not Nero’s cruelty, but the indifference of Nero’s guests. Nero’s guests, people who feasted
    while around them human beings were being set on fire. The civilian population, must choose
    whether we want to be Nero’s guests or not, whether we also want to keep silent by ignoring the
    cruel injustices meted out to farmers and the poor and enjoy the benefits at the cost of the
    suffering of a huge population of this country.

    While it took the Finance Minister less than 2 hours to rush to Dalal Street and console the
    “weeping millionaires” when the Sensex plunged a few years ago, it took 10 years for the Prime
    Minister to pay a visit to the family of the farmers who had committed suicide.  

    Around 2 lakhs farmers have committed suicides in the last 10 years. At the same time the
    government of India has given more than 2 lakh crores “incentives” to corporates in the last 2
    years.

    The government’s policy to compensate the family who lost their breadwinner is also very tricky.
    The person who committed suicide might be the only working farmer in the household but may
    or may not own the land. In this case, the family of the suicide will not be compensated.
    Likewise, women farmers won’t be compensated. The society does not recognize women
    farmers and women in India rarely have land or property in their names.

    The farmers feel that no one cares about them. This was clear during the protests on the streets
    of Nagpur, Maharashtra in 2011.

    Food is also wasted by the Indians. A more variety and luxury in food availability has given the
    urbanized options to play with one’s taste buds.

    In short, while one half of the population is starving and dying of hunger, the other part is busy in
    wasting food to extensive amounts.

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