About a year ago, a deeply concerned Nana Patekar started a quiet drive to help farmers break out of a life of penury. In an interview with hitlist, Nana had expressed anguish at the abject state of farmers and the state government's apparent disregard to reasons behind their growing suicide rate all this while.

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