Goats-for-Votes Pose India Deficit Risk as Poor Lack Toilets
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Clara Mary lights an oil lamp in her one-room shack, revealing a 14-inch color television sitting on a blue plastic chair that she hasn’t been able to turn on since the Tamil Nadu government gave it to her three years ago.
“I don’t have any electricity, so I don’t know what to do with these things,” Mary, a 40-year-old mother of four, said from the slum in southern India, where naked children played in garbage next to rats meandering through raw sewage. “We just want basic amenities. We don’t want any luxuries.”