On India's Despairing Farms, a Plague of Suicide.

The article focuses on the issue of suicide among farmers in India. According to the author, some 17,000 Indian farmers committed suicide in 2003. The author states that the issue is becoming an increasingly bigger political challenge for Prime Minister Manmoh Singh, particularly impacting India's relationship with the United States. The author reviews how changes brought be economic reforms have opened Indian farmers to global competition.