Behind the mass: The unseen forces holding farmers' movement together

There are visible faces. And there are the unseen forces. The farmers protesting outside Delhi for more than a month against the three farm laws passed by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government seem to be a confusing mass of discordant voices, mostly from Punjab.
 

This is only part of the story. Behind the movement are shock-workers functioning quietly to ensure that a seemingly spontaneous, apolitical, grassroots mobilisation sustains itself without dribbling into chaos or violence. The challenges are many. These are hundreds of villages on wheels, congregating as a small town on Delhi’s doorstep. The movement needs to fuel