From the Editor-in-Chief

In recent weeks, rural distress has dominated public discourse. Loan waivers are the new flavour of the season for politicians, the panacea that will win them elections. Typically, they don't address the real problem, just apply band aids to a very deep wound. The reasons for the anguish in rural India are many and vary from region to region: overproduction, lack of market access, the unproductive size of