Word: anantapur
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...return at all. On July 13, Bhuyar walked out into his barren fields and swallowed pesticide. It's a familiar story. Thousands of Indian farmers have committed suicide the same way since the rains began failing seven years ago-2,000 in and around the small southern town of Anantapur alone-and hundreds more in the past two months. Vidarbha farmer Prabhakar Khatale, 36, planted his soybean seeds on June 10 and killed himself on July 3. "If the rains had come on time," says his father Shyamrao simply, "we wouldn't have lost...
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