India: Hit by Drought

From: Women's Feature Service | Date: March 10, 2004| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

Thanjavur, (WFS) - Kasturi is painfully thin, not yet 35, and a mother of five children - two boys and three girls - with the youngest still an infant. She has just returned to her maternal home in the Vadagarai village of Thiruvarur block (in the Kaveri delta), one of the worst drought-hit areas of Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu.

She says, "My husband drinks, beats me and demands more dowry. His mother and sister support him. I can't bear it anymore. I can't go back, but what am I...

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