15 October 2012, 05:30 am
Cotton for My Shroud

(75 min; 2010; dvd; English subtitles)
Directors: Nandan Saxena and Kavita Bahl

Rajat Kamal Award for Best Investigative Film, 59th National Film Awards 2012; Gold for Best Script awarded by Indian Documentary Film Producers Association 2011

Since 1995, a quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide"”the largest wave of recorded suicides in history. Most of these were cotton farmers from Vidarbha, for whom the escalating cost of seed, fertilizer and pesticide has made farming unsustainable