According to P Sainath, we do not have women farmer suicides because we do not consider them farmers in the first hand. They are pushed in the column of housewives.

There is a lot that a sentence can do. For instance: ‘I wish I was the one who committed suicide,’ a widow had once said, ‘and not my husband. It is easy to die.’ Language can be visual.

Even as Latur in Maharashtra continues to reel under the effects of the drought, women are the worst affected by the water crisis.