World How drought is changing rural India ********************************************************** BBC News 1 hour 13 minutes ago Sign in to like Reblog on Tumblr Tweet More than 300 million people living in 256 districts are affected by drought in India after two years of sparse monsoon rains. BBC Hindi's Ajay Sharma travels through seven states to find that the drought has changed India's villages and their residents. When I started my nearly 7,000km (4,349 miles)-long road journey from the southern state of Karnataka in October, my brief was simply to report on how poor rains were changing India's rural landscape. I had no inkling that I would be witnessing the making of a drought, that would change a country and its people. The change is writ large in the wrinkled face of the 101-year-old widow, Hanumanthi: a face that symbolises the endless struggle of ...