“It was his last harvest,” said Ramesh, referring to his relative Prithviraj Berwa, who died by suicide last week after his crop was damaged in Rajasthan’s Bundi district – in untimely rain which lashed north India over the last few days.
The 60-year-old farmer, from the Berwa scheduled caste, cultivated wheat on three bighas of land in Majar village. “Last month he sold this land too, to repay the debt. But all his crops got damaged which might have made him depressed,” Ramesh told Newslaundry at a gathering at Prithviraj’s residence, three days after his death.
