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V Vinkudothu, looks like a is a normal second-year student. Bespectacled, she could easily pass off among the hundreds of youngsters who had come to look at the farmers' rally organized by a conglomeration of around 180 organisations in the capital's Parliament Street. Clutching the portrait of a middle-aged man, Vinkudothu strains his voice amidst the din of leaders to describe how a mix of loan from money lenders and banks has put her family into a vicious cycle debt from which her father never recovered. He committed suicide in October 2016 after failing to repay a debt of Rs 13 lakh taken from local money lenders and banks after both paddy and cotton crop in their five acre leased land failed due to consecutive drought in the state. More than 50 women farmers from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh who have either lost their husband, father or a near one to debt and crop loss were among the roughly over 15,000 farmers who had gathered at capital as part of the (Kisan Sansad) Farmers ...