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Abstract
Disability is a limitation that prevents a full-fledged development. It involves incomplete reasoning, physical trauma and an attitude to doubt one's own identity. A person disabled by birth and a person condemned to live under the banner of disability is two different spheres that undergo conflict. The former is an impairment whereas the latter is a result of a social construct. Namita Waikar's The Long March throws light on the farmers who are afflicted psychologically and physiologically through the denial of their rights, famine, poverty and their children born with malnutrition or deformity. The demands of these primary producers are brought out in the voice of a doctor who struggles to set up a better medicinal facility in the affected villages. Mainly the disabling of the mind through the structure of power politics in the subaltern realm engages the farmer to commit suicide. Both disabling the land and mind go hand in hand plundering their support systems. This paper aims to showcase the visible spheres of subjugation, struggle and the revolt of farmers towards disability.