On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 08:30:10AM -0700, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> Several farmers would just get these loans and use them to, say, marry off
> their daughters. And then wind up unable to pay - and faced with hard nosed
> collection agents (or even hired thugs, with more than one bank), they'd
> just drink pesticide and die. Shiv might have some theory on why
> organophosphorous pesticide is such a favored means of committing suicide
> in India.

Easy availability. Managing these is somewhat of a speciality for
some Indian intensivists.

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