Rest Of My Family

#Gulbarga

‘Never thought about anything other than helping someone in need. A human being is far more important than money…’
‘Water. That’s what we will fight over next…’
‘Farmers have had no place in society. The bottom is no place to be…’
‘My husband abandoned us twenty years ago. Drought took away everything I had…’
‘I’ll tell you everything about NREGA. Everyone knew what was happening in Masrudi…’
‘Even amongst the poor, there lie the poorest who get nothing…’
‘It’s easier for them to send her away. She is somebody else’s problem now.’
She sits in the hall every afternoon guarding the onions from rain and dust. The rates fell that year…
“It’s because I gave up on my dreams of attending college that my family can now eat…”
If it weren’t for him, I would have killed myself. I thought my family could survive with the compensation…’