-Bloomberg/ NDTV
Crouched in the shade beside a mud hut near her parched wheat fields in central India, Harkiya is getting desperate.
India’s first back-to-back droughts in three decades left the 47-year-old widow with no income. She lives on money borrowed from relatives, and has no cash to take her sick daughter to the hospital — all the more worrying because her husband and son died from a mysterious illness last year.
"Somehow we are alive," Harkiya, who goes by one name, said in her village in Madhya Pradesh state. "I need any work to survive. But here there is no government work."
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