Savaging the civilised?

Twenty-five years ago, Kalahandi in Orissa (as it was then) provoked national outrage following reports of deaths from starvation. Now as then, Odisha is the country's poorest state, and Kalahandi and neighbouring Rayagada its poorest districts. Then, you could travel from one wretched hamlet to another, and meet people surviving on roots and leaves. The development arm of the state was not to be seen. Today, in the Lanjigarh area straddling the two districts...

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