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SHAMBHU: They have been beaten with canes, doused in tear gas and blocked by concrete barricades and metal spikes but the thousands of farmers trying to march to India’s capital to demand higher crop prices also face an invisible barrier — digital blackouts. As their caravan of tractors and trucks moved from the northern state of Punjab towards New Delhi, the farmers …

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