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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Parth MN

In India’s richest state, exam scams kill escape from farm crisis

A protest against alleged fraud in the Maharashtra exams for jobs, in Pune last year [Courtesy: Nilesh Gaikwad]

Mumbai, India – Had it not been for his grandfather, Ganesh Kale might have been dead today.

In January this year, the 40-year-old woke at 6am in his remote village in India’s western state of Maharashtra and quietly walked to his 2-hectare (5-acre) farm – on which the millet crop was about to be harvested – to end his life.

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