In Marathwada’s worst-hit districts of Beed, Osmanabad and Latur, households now have an uncompromising priority list of expenses as an economy hit by years of near-total crop failure goes into a tailspin. About 65 kilometres from the cracked earth that was once their source of income, MandakiniMujmule, in her forties, and her daughter Anita, 21, have spent 16 days in Beed city’s government hospital. Mandakini has undergone a complicated uterine surgery, nearly four years after she first experienced shooting pain in her lower abdomen.

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