In the first part of this article, the focus was on suicides by daily wagers, agriculture workers and the unemployed. The suicide figures published by NCRB (2021) show a rising trend with the daily wagers. . .

The innovation story told by free marketeers goes something like this: You need to incentivise the ‘risk loving’ capitalists for inventions and innovations to take place. Patenting is essential because patents provide incentives to invent. . .