Journalists in the diaspora continue to cover the agrarian crisis in India through the lens of the Jatt. Then we ask why other people don’t post about the farmers protest on their platforms. Landless farmers don’t get a mention but the landlords ‘heritage’ is at the forefront.

Some people cited in your articles promote ‘Jatt life’ & ‘Jatt Vodka’ on social media in problematic ways but sure keep referencing them

‘heritage’ ‘daughter of farmers’ ‘farming clan’ is another way of saying ‘I am a Jatt’ thus another way of expressing caste allegiance.

Folk who have never tilled land in their life have built an identity for themselves based off an ideal that blatantly promotes caste. Landless farmers are in the plenty. Much of the labour on farms is also done by women. Don’t be selective or lazy with how you address this.

People have not posted ‘I am the daughter of a mazdoor’ ‘my family are landless farmers’ ‘farming runs in our family too but my caste kinda suggests otherwise’. When society does not enable an equal playing field due to caste they won’t say what others can. It’s not the same.

There’s been a couple of articles published by the BBC, yet they still failed to talk about agriculture outside of the obvious lens of caste in the diaspora. We are simply not there yet with the caste debate, if *ever* we are, maybe then what I write won’t feel like an ‘attack’.