For the widows of farmers who committed suicide in Maharashtra, life is a tale of suffering and harassment Alarge chunk of rural India is feeling the jaws of the agrarian crisis sink in even deeper, tearing its veins apart. In the midst of this crisis, there are the women who work quietly without raising a din about their work. These are the women left behind to live for their children after their husbands committed suicide, unable to bear the burden of their debts anymore. "When we designate these women as widows, we are reducing their identity to a narrow dimension," says P. Sainath, columnist and Magsaysay award winner. "The word 'widow' has a very pejorative meaning in our society and these women should be recognised as farmers. Even when their husbands were alive, they did the bulk of the work. Once their husbands are gone, they have to take on all of the farming, child-rearing, continue with their domestic chores and they have to deal with an assorted bunch of predators