Sunday, November 20, 2011

Killer fields - The Times of India

Killer fields - The Times of India: " Pulla Kala will never forget October 31. That evening, she watched her husband Pulla Yellaiah look up at the skies and chant a silent prayer. Yellaiah looked tense and vulnerable. The couple was reeling under a debt of Rs 3 lakh to cultivate cotton. Yellaiah had expected a good harvest and hoped to rake in a decent profit after the loans were paid. "He bought pesticides to spray in the field. He told me he was going out for a while that evening. He never came back," Kala recalls, crying inconsolably. Yellaiah drank pesticide to end his life. He was only 22. "

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