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So Mary, can I tell you about this protest I went to?

Martin Freyer, NPR's India correspondent, I am All Years.

So it was January 26th, which is Republic Day in India.

It's this big national holiday.

Now normally there is a massive military parade in the capital, Delhi.

Everybody watches it on TV.

But this year the holiday gets completely overshadowed.

When tens of thousands of farmers roll into the city on their tractors, their waven flags,

and they are angry.

And the reason they're angry is that the government has passed these new agriculture reforms, laws

that basically let the free market into what has been a pretty closed system.

So I'm watching this tractor rally on TV from the other side of the country in Mumbai,

where I live.

And all of a sudden, things escalate.

Farmers just bust through police lines, and then they're getting tear gas, and you

can see them storm the red fort.

In real time, I'm watching them scramble all over the ramparts of this 17th century palace.

And the whole thing is just shocking.

So I book it down to this cricket field in downtown Mumbai, where farmers from this part

of the country are gathering in solidarity.

And some of them had literally walked like hundreds of miles days to get here.

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