what is the only sign of prosperity found among the poor in Kalahandi
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Here is a picture of hell: there is no food and no water. For 20 long and agonising years, no one has come to help. Those whose limbs still work have left the villages, never to return. Those who been unable to get away are dead or dying. They move in groups, licking water, like dogs. For food, they pick the poisonous roots and leaves - the only thing that will grow there - and boil them for three whole days before they can eat them.
Those who have been able to find jobs earn from 75 paise to a princely Rs 3.50 a day. Two out of every three children born die in infancy. There is fever, cholera, dysentery and an ever-increasing number of respiratory diseases. Nothing could be worse, no people more wretched. But in the once princely district of Kalahandi in Orissa, there is something much worse: women have now begun to abandon and sell their children because they can no longer afford to feed them. Principal Correspondent Farzand Ahmed travelled extensively over the suffering land to see the people that god and man forgot. His report:
Panasi Punji, 35, of Amlapalli village in Khariar block was abandoned by her husband two years ago. This year she abandoned her husband's little sister Vanita. "My own two children were starving," she said, "what could I