The wells and ponds at Mukundwadi in Maharashtra, where Rehan lives, have been dry since April. Rehan’s mother is a domestic help and his father a daily-wage labourer. The train stops for about 40 minutes at Aurangabad; Rehan and his companions rush to fill their pots. The difficult part is carrying their full pots off the train at Mukundwadi — the Hyderabad-bound train stops only for a minute here. Sometimes we carry back cans for other families in our neighbourhood.”“We have no other option,” says Rehan’s mother, Parveen Qureshi.

Source: The Hindu June 29, 2019 18:33 UTC