Thousands of farmers came to the borders of the national capital in the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic. They were scared of the virus like the rest of the country. But they felt that their livelihood was in danger and the future of their children was threatened. They were at the Delhi borders to demand repeal of the three farm reforms laws that the government had brought, first as Ordinances and then as duly passed bills, in 2020. This is the story of that tussle between the farmers and the government, with both insisting that they were right in doing what they did. A trained lawyer, author Prabhakar Kumar Mishra is a Delhi-based senior journalist, whose first book "Ek Ruka Hua Faisla: Ayodhya Vivaad Ke Aakhiri Chaalis Din" on the Supreme Court's hearing of the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title dispute has been well-received by readers. Before writing Kisaan Banaam Sarkaar: Aandolan Ki Kahaniyan, he spent 13 months reporting on the farmers' agitation against the three farm reforms laws that the Union government had brought in 2000. The author practically lived with the farmers for more than a year to understand their issues and why they rejected the laws that the government seriously thought were revolutionary in their objective.
