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All nine villages where I met with farmers 2012–2016 to talk about agricultural technologies had stories of suicide because both Telangana and the Warangal district where I conduct most of my research were hit especially hard by farmer suicides.

“We 14 friends came from Warangal to see the beautiful Papikondalu and now only five are left,” said one of the survivors, 54-year-old Gorre Prabhakar.

“Many people got scared,” said Radha Rani, a senior manager at Indian Bank, another state-owned bank, in Warangal.

G. Ravinder, 55, an architect and consultant in Warangal, said that he has issued paychecks to the laborers working on his projects, but they have been unable to cash them.

On Monday, Sampath Kumar Lohati drove his scooter around Warangal, a city in the south Indian state of Telangana, for more than four hours trying to withdraw money.