“Only two of them work,” says Badri Kharat of his borewells in Roshangaon. That’s hard — when you’ve sunk 36 of [...]

Thirst is Marathwada’s greatest crop this season. Forget sugarcane. Thirst, human and industrial, eclipses anything else. [...]

This slideshow requires JavaScript. Bharat Raut spends around Rs.800 a month on petrol — just to fetch water that belongs [...]