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Foot massages, tattoos and dentists for defiant India farmers

By France24
22 December 2020   |   4:30 pm
With foot-massage machines, a dental surgery, their own newspaper and even a tattoo parlour, it's clear that the thousands of Indian farmers blocking roads into Delhi for almost a month are going nowhere. Almost four-weeks after they reached outskirts of the Indian capital, the farmers, most of them backed by powerful unions, look ready for the long-haul after repeated rounds of negotiations with the government failed.

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