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Harvest

The True Cost of Cotton

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Harvest

By: Maryam Aslany, Rana Dasgupta
Narrated by: Pooya Mohseni, Nadia Marshall, Vikas Adam, Manu Narayan, Azhar Khan, Anjali Bhimani, Lucy Rayner, Sandeep C Deshpande, Pushan Kripalani, Robbin Singh, Sachit Murthy, Nagesh Prasad, Mahika Singh, Ankita Podder
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Harvest transports listeners to the beautiful and eerie world of India’s cotton fields. Source of the most intimate and universal of commodities, we find these white-flecked lands pushed to their limit by global pressures.

A young farmer is murdered: everyone thinks they know who did it, but the village holds many secrets. A widow battles to reclaim her dead husband’s land and, despite incredible obstacles, makes a go of farming it alone. Two young men return from the city to take over their family farms: we follow their harvests, their attempts to sell their crop at a profit, their hopes of love and marriage, and their dreams of social change. A moneylender is terrifyingly honest about his own deadly role in this unforgiving system.

Despite the pressures they face, the characters in this unique series maintain profound connections to nature and the sacred. Offering an unprecedented window onto the everyday struggles of these essential producers, Harvest shows how their daily choices shape not just their own futures, but the fabric of the entire world.

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A heartbreaking insight into the lives of amazing people.
The entire team produced fascinatingly moving details of daily hardship of millions of farmers and their families.
There is nothing to dislike and congratulations to all concerned for such a fantastic real life podcast

the reality of the story which ìs mostly unknown to the world

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This in depth portrayal of the real lives of cotton farmers and their plight was only vaguely known to me before listening to this series. I enjoyed the real soundtrack in the background but wished I could hear more directly from Dr Aslany

The stark truth about this situation was clearly brought to me by some brilliant journalism

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Dr. Maryam Aslany has created something powerful with Harvest. She pulls back the curtain on the daily realities of cotton farmers in India and exposes a world of suffering most of us never imagine when we think about the clothes we wear. Instead of distant statistics, she allows the farmers themselves to speak. Their stories are filled with crushing debt, broken families, relentless loss, and a bleak cycle that traps generation after generation.

What makes this audiobook so striking is how unflinching it is. There is no escape, no easy hope, only the raw truth of lives unraveling in the shadow of an industry built on their pain. It is brilliant and symphonic in the way it is told, but also devastating. This is the most essential story, beautifully written, shocking in its honesty, and impossible to forget.

Brilliant, Spellbinding, and Utterly Devastating

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This is an Important message and deserves to be heard. Well presented and is sympathetically delivered

Dedication to farmers’ plight

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Superb! Its a profoundly moving narrative that draws you close to its real characters while revealing the broader socio-economic crisis beneath their stories. Its a rare blend of storytelling and insight that lingers long after listening; artfully made emotionally intimate and yet intellectually illuminating and thought provoking. Its the kind of content that is sadly getting missed in today’s flood of media noise and AI-driven hoaxes. I’m eagerly looking forward to hearing more of this.

Intimate yet Universal

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