Kite-flying farmers take on police drones in India protests

A farmer gestures as police prevent him and others from moving towards Delhi on the fourth day of their protest at the Haryana-Punjab border point. Among other things, the farmers are seeking minimum support price for their crops. A cat-and-mouse confrontation is under way in north India between police and protesting farmers who are demanding higher prices for their crops from the federal government. The farmers from the states of Punjab and Haryana, many of whom are military and paramilitary veterans, have deployed scores of kites to counter police drones employed to drop tear gas canisters on to demonstrators. Protesters…