Telangana Drought's Latest Horror: 75 Farmers Dead In 5 Weeks | Read

In the month of August, absolutely nothing seemed to be going right for Burugula Satyam Rao, called "Sattaiah" by friends. The monsoon didn't deliver and for the third year in a row, the maize and cotton he had planted on his small farm in Telangana were dead- the maize was stunted, the cotton saplings wilted away.