Some of his slogans were taken up after he committedsuicide in 1994 by a few far-right French writers and British singers who briefly posed as situationists.
The problem was worst in the central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, where some farmers who took large loans to buy new Bt Cotton seeds committedsuicide when their yields were so poor that they couldn't repay their debts.
For years, those of us in the realms of social justice, biology, ecosystem integrity, the crises of extinctions and the ever-challenging questions of custodial jurisdiction over the endemic and native seeds that make or break small farmers, particularly in economically stressed nations, has posed unique legal, biocultural and intellectual hurdles, some battered by allegations that many farmers, desperate to hold on, have committedsuicide.