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India: Highway is the new home for farmers

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New Delhi, Dec 5 (PTI) Tents pitched on tractors, people busy chopping vegetables to get food ready, solar panels to charge mobile phones, medical camps and even hookahs — once a thoroughfare teeming with traffic, Delhi’s Tikri border resembles a ‘pind’ (village) now.

Living in this village are farmers who have come largely from neighbouring Punjab to demand a repeal of the…